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Erect Men/Undulating Women : The Visual Imagery of Gender, 'Race' and Progress in Reconstructive Illustrations of Human Evolution.
Title:
Erect Men/Undulating Women : The Visual Imagery of Gender, 'Race' and Progress in Reconstructive Illustrations of Human Evolution.
Author:
Wiber, Melanie.
ISBN:
9780889205574
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (299 pages)
Contents:
Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- ONE: Of Gender, "Race," Progress and Evolution: Human Evolution Reconstructive Illustration -- TWO: Contested Knowledge in the Human Evolution Story Field: Man the Hunter versus Woman the Gatherer -- THREE: Reconstructive Human Evolution Illustrations: Utilizing Western Art Conventions in a Contested Story Field -- FOUR: Gender: The Ubiquitous Story Operator -- FIVE: Conflation and the Significant Other: Racism and Codes of the Primitive -- SIX: Window or Mirror? Primates and Foragers: Analogies of the Pre-Cultural Life -- SEVEN: Progress: Inevitable as Moral Rewards- The Ultimate Story Operator -- EIGHT: Lucy as Barbie Doll: Eroticism in the Human Evolution Meta-Narrative -- NINE: The Commodification of Human Evolution: Selling a Story Field through Illustrations -- TEN: Conclusions and Future Directions for Research -- Figures -- References Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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