Erect men, undulating women : the visual imagery of gender, race and progress in reconstructive illustrations of human evolution / / Melanie G. Wiber
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| Autore: |
Wiber Melanie <1954->
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| Titolo: |
Erect men, undulating women : the visual imagery of gender, race and progress in reconstructive illustrations of human evolution / / Melanie G. Wiber
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| Pubblicazione: | Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1997 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (ix, 290 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 305.3 |
| Soggetto topico: | Anthropological illustration - Social aspects |
| Feminist anthropology | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-278) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front Matter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Of Gender, "Race" Progress and Evolution: Human Evolution Reconstructive Illustration -- Contested Knowledge in the Human Evolution Story Field: Man the Hunter versus Woman the Gatherer -- Reconstructive Human Evolution Illustrations: Utilizing Western Art Conventions in a Contested Story Field -- Gender: The Ubiquitous Story Operator -- Conflation and the Significant Other: Racism and Codes of the Primitive -- Window or Mirror? Primates and Foragers: Analogies of the Pre- Cultural Life -- Progress: Inevitable as Moral Rewards-The Ultimate Story Operator -- Lucy as Barbie Doll: Eroticism in the Human Evolution Meta-Narrative -- The Commodification of Human Evolution: Selling a Story Field through Illustrations -- Conclusions and Future Directions for Research -- Figures -- References Cited -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The author provides a deeper understanding of popularized illustrations of human origins and encourages readers to gain a sensitivity to the ways in which Western culture constructs scientific findings that are compatible with its deeply held beliefs and values. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Erect men, undulating women |
| ISBN: | 0-88920-308-3 |
| 1-282-23328-9 | |
| 9786613811028 | |
| 0-88920-557-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910821670003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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