Engaging critically with concepts of race, species, and otherness, this book contributes to current debates on human evolution. In a political climate marked by movements such as Black Lives Matter and policies like Donald Trump's Executive Order 14168 against 'gender ideology', this volume brings together a group of leading scholars in archeology, paleoanthropology and human evolution to examine how narratives of human origins intersect with issues of race, gender, and anthropocentrism. Drawing on postcolonial and critical frameworks from the Humanities and Social Sciences, it interrogates key foundational concepts and assumptions underpinning evolutionary discourses.
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Alterity and Human Evolution
Deep-Time and Multispecies Perspectives on Difference and Variation
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Deep-Time and Multispecies Perspectives on Difference and Variation
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Table of contents
- Alterity and Human Evolution
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- Part I. Alterity and the (Biological) Species Concept
- Chapter 1. Science and the Sacred
- Chapter 2. The “Other” Homo erectus
- Chapter 3. Species as Alterity
- Chapter 4. Like Us/Not Like Us
- Chapter 5. Alternative Evolutionary Pathways of Emotional Responses in Neanderthals and Anatomically Modern Humans (AMH), and the Co-evolution of Neurobiology and Culture
- Part II. Alterity, History, and Reflexivity
- Chapter 6. Narratives of “Other” in the Emergence of the Genus Homo
- Chapter 7. Neanderthals and the Issue of Masculinity
- Chapter 8. The Hero of Human Evolution
- Chapter 9. Normal Is Not What You Think It Is!
- Chapter 10. Interpreting Variability, Diversity, and Alterity in the Hominin Fossil Record
- Part III. Against Alterity: Critical Intervention
- Chapter 11. Alterity Is a Violent Western Construct
- Part IV. Alterity as an Ontological and Epistomological Challenge
- Chapter 12. A Critical Ontology of the Archaeology of Human Origins
- Chapter 13. Thinking about “Radical” Alterity
- Chapter 14. Paleolithic Art as a Dynamic Symbolic System
- Chapter 15. The Alterity of Deep History and the Hospitality of Things
- Chapter 16. Alterity Evolving
- Chapter 17. Multispecies Alterity
- Index
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