Interrogating Human Origins

Interrogating Human Origins

Decolonisation and the Deep Human Past

Matthews, Jacqueline; Porr, Martin

Taylor & Francis Ltd

12/2019

352

Dura

Inglês

9781138300415

15 a 20 dias

453

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Section 1: Introduction; Chapter 1 Interrogating and decolonising the deep human past; Section 2: Definition of the human and its colonial legacy; Chapter 2 IMHO: inventing modern human origins; Chapter 3 Modern ontologies of the 'more-than-animal' human: provincialising humanism for the present day; Chapter 4 Colonialism and narratives of human origins in Asia and Africa; Chapter 5 Primordialising Aboriginal Australians: colonialist tropes and Eurocentric views on behavioural markers of modern humans; Section 3: Representation, temporality and narratives of human origins; Chapter 6 Old Flames: rekindling ideas of fire, humanity and representation through creative art practice; Chapter 7 Orientalism and origins: the search for firsts in the 'Cradle of Civilization'; Chapter 8 The Beast Without. Becoming human in the science fiction of H.G. Wells; Chapter 9 The temporality of humanity and the colonial landscape of the deep human past; Section 4: National, political and historical dimensions of human origins; Chapter 10 The Far West from the Far East: decolonisation and human origins in East Asia: the legacy of 1937 and 1948; Chapter 11 Interpretative shifts in understanding the prehistoric settlement of the Indian Subcontinent: comparing Western and Indian historical perspectives; Chapter 12 Our earliest ancestors: human and non-human primates of North America; Chapter 13 "If we are all African, then I am nothing", hominin evolution and the politics of identity in South Africa; Section 5: The construction of genetic facts; Chapter 14 Naming the sacred ancestors: taxonomic reification and Pleistocene genomic narratives; Chapter 15 Traditional owner participation in genetic research: a researcher perspective
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Tamil Nadu;decolonisation;Paul Gauguin;postcolonial theories;Young Man;Western modernity;Iziko South African Museum;human origins;HMS Beagle;Pope Paul III;Genus Homo;Ancient DNA;Human Origins Research;Modern Human Origins;Modern Human;Cal BP;Middle Palaeolithic;DNA Research;Hominin Evolution;Von Koenigswald;Out-of Africa Model;Early Palaeolithic;Late Acheulean;MHB;Modern Human Evolution;Palaeolithic Archaeology;pre-Clovis Sites;Behavioural Modernity;Animal Kingdom