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008			180706s2017 enk ob 001 0 eng d
020			_a9781315210803 _q(e-book : PDF)
020			_a9781351810760 _q(e-book: Mobi)
020			_z9781138628175 _q(hardback)
024	7		_a10.4324/9781315210803 _2doi
035			_a(OCoLC)994593705
040			_aFlBoTFG _cFlBoTFG _erda
050		4	_aGN27 _b.J33 2017
082	0	4	_a301 _bJ131
100	1		_aJackson, John P., _d1961-, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aDarwinism, democracy, and race : _bAmerican anthropology and evolutionary biology in the twentieth century / _cJohn P. Jackson Jr. and David J. Depew.
264		1	_aLondon : _bRoutledge, _c2017.
300			_a1 online resource (xi, 240 pages)
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aHistory and philosophy of biology
505	0	0	_tchapter 1 Introduction: in the footsteps of Franz Boas -- _tchapter 2 Franz Boas and the argument from presumption -- _tchapter 3 Demarcating anthropology: the boundary work of Alfred / _rKroeber -- _tchapter 4 Theodosius Dobzhansky and the argument from definition -- _tchapter 5 Unifying science by creating community: the epideictic rhetoric of Sherwood Washburn -- _tchapter 6 A kairos moment unmet and met: the controversy over Carleton Coon’s The Origin of Races -- _tchapter 7 Epilogue: the roots of the Sociobiology controversy, the infirmities of Evolutionary Psychology, and the unity of anthropology.
520			_a"Darwinism, Democracy, and Race examines the development and defence of an argument that arose at the boundary between anthropology and evolutionary biology in twentieth-century America. In its fully articulated form, this argument simultaneously discredited scientific racism and defended free human agency in Darwinian terms. The volume is timely because it gives readers a key to assessing contemporary debates about the biology of race. By working across disciplinary lines, the book';s focal figures--the anthropologist Franz Boas, the cultural anthropologist Alfred Kroeber, the geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky, and the physical anthropologist Sherwood Washburn--found increasingly persuasive ways of cutting between genetic determinist and social constructionist views of race by grounding Boas';s racially egalitarian, culturally relativistic, and democratically pluralistic ethic in a distinctive version of the genetic theory of natural selection. Collaborators in making and defending this argument included Ashley Montagu, Stephen Jay Gould, and Richard Lewontin.Darwinism, Democracy, and Race will appeal to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and academics interested in subjects including Philosophy, Critical Race Theory, Sociology of Race, History of Biology and Anthropology, and Rhetoric of Science."--Provided by publisher.
650		0	_aAnthropology.
650		0	_aEvolution (Biology)
700	1		_aDepew, David J., _d1942- _eauthor.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781138628175 _w(DLC) 2017008939
830		0	_aHistory and philosophy of biology.
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315210803 _zClick here to view.
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