| Description |
1 online resource (195 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- 1 Bias and Fallacy in Anthropology and Beyond -- The Demarcation Problem in Anthropology -- Goals of this Book -- Key Concepts in Skepticism -- Cognitive Biases -- Logical Fallacies -- The Effect of Culture -- Conclusions -- 2 Cultural Anthropology and the Invented Primitive -- Lost Tribe Narratives and the Tasaday -- 3 Ethnology Vs. Pseudoethnology -- Napoleon Chagnon and the Yanomami -- Carlos Castaneda and the Myth of Don Juan -- Bad Anthropology, Pseudo-Anthropology, Hoax Anthropology |
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4 Apes and Sign Language: Another "Clever Hans"? -- 5 Pseudolinguistics -- The "Sun Language" and the Founding of Modern Turkey -- Theories of African Presence in Meso-America -- Norse Runes in North America -- 6 Biological Anthropology and Pseudoscience: The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis -- 7 Pseudoarchaeology and Ancient Aliens -- 8 Archaeology as the Handmaiden of Ideology -- Kossinna and Nationalist Archaeology in Germany -- Nationalist Archaeology in Bosnia -- Nationalist Archaeology in Israel -- Racist Archaeology and Colonialism in Africa -- 9 Science, Pseudoscience, and Anthropology |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
References -- Index |
| Subject |
Anthropology -- Methodology
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Pseudoscience
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000645576 |
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1000645576 |
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