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  • ANTHROPOLOGY BEYOND CULTURE
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    ANTHROPOLOGY BEYOND CULTURE
    RICHARD G. FOX / ‎BARBARA J. KING
    Culture is a vexed concept within anthropology. From their earliest studies, anthropologists have often noted the emotional attachment of people to their customs, even in cases where this loyalty can make for problems. Do anthropologists now suffer the same kind of disability with respect to their continuing emotional attachment to the concept of culture? This book considers th...

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  • ANIMALS' BEST FRIENDS
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    ANIMALS' BEST FRIENDS
    BARBARA J. KING
    “King’s Animals’ Best Friends is the most comprehensive exploration I’ve read of the complex relationship between the human and nonhuman, full of great insights and practical information.”—Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times Book Review, “By the Book” Finalist for the 2021 Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature As people come to understand more about animals’ inner lives—t...

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  • EVOLVING GOD
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    EVOLVING GOD
    BARBARA J. KING
      Religion has been a central part of human experience since at least the dawn of recorded history. The gods change, as do the rituals, but the underlying desire remains—a desire to belong to something larger, greater, most lasting than our mortal, finite selves.   But where did that desire come from? Can we explain its emergence through evolution? Yes, says biological anthropo...

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  • PERSONALITIES ON THE PLATE
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    PERSONALITIES ON THE PLATE
    BARBARA J. KING
    In recent years, scientific advances in our understanding of animal minds have led to major changes in how we think about, and treat, animals in zoos and aquariums. The general public, it seems, is slowly coming to understand that animals like apes, elephants, and dolphins have not just brains, but complicated inner and social lives, and that we need to act accordingly.   Yet t...

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  • HOW ANIMALS GRIEVE
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    HOW ANIMALS GRIEVE
    BARBARA J. KING
    From the time of our earliest childhood encounters with animals, we casually ascribe familiar emotions to them. But scientists have long cautioned against such anthropomorphizing, arguing that it limits our ability to truly comprehend the lives of other creatures. Recently, however, things have begun to shift in the other direction, and anthropologist Barbara J. King is at the ...

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