Explaining Human Origins: Myth, Imagination and Conjecture - Hardcover

Stoczkowski, Wiktor

 
9780521651349: Explaining Human Origins: Myth, Imagination and Conjecture
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521651344 ISBN 13: 9780521651349
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Synopsis

This book argues the influence of Western folk ideas on human origin theories from the nineteenth century onwards.

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About the Author

Wiktor Stoczkowski (b.1959) was trained as a prehistoric archaeologist and ethnologist and, later, as an historian of science. He is lecturer in anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, is director of Groupe de recherches sur les savoirs (EHESS) and research member of Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale. His publications include Anthropologie naive, anthropologie savante (1994), Aux origines de l'humanite: Anthologie (1996), and Des Hommes, des extraterrestres et des dieux (1999), and numerous articles.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521651344
ISBN 13 
9780521651349
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
246

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