Christianities in Oceania: Historical Genealogies and Anthropological Insularities

Christianities in Oceania: Historical Genealogies and Anthropological Insularities

People recognition: a historical/anthropological perspective.

Using current neurological and neuropsychological literature, and the analysis of different cultural and historical conditions, people recognition is analyzed. Different "subsystems" or "modules" could be involved in individuals' recognition: living versus non-living, own species versus other species, familiar versus non-familiar, males versus females, and individual identification versus emoti...

Population Governance in the Prc: Political, Historical and Anthropological Perspectives

Since the one-child policy was introduced by the Chinese state almost thirty years ago, it has commonly been seen by Western observers as a disturbing paradox. Just as China was “freeing up” in other ways, following the death of Mao Zedong and the demise of the Gang of Four, it embarked on the most “draconian birth control campaign in history”—a state-led attempt at social engineering as intrus...

Food in Chinese culture. Anthropological and historical perspectives

Introduction: toward a historical/anthropological approach in neuropsychology.

Anthropology has striven to adequately understand what human living conditions were like 10000, 20000 or 100 000 years ago. Stone Age (usually divided into the Old Stone or Paleolithic Age, and New Stone or Neolithic Age) extended until some 6000-7000 years ago (Hours, 1982). Agriculture appeared some 10 000 years ago; the first cities some 6000 years ago; the first civilizations about 5000 yea...