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Dawkins does call himself an ethologist but he works as an evolutionary
theorist much of the time, and he and Dennett are two of my favorite (work
related) authors. I thought Dennett was a cognitive psychologist or
philosopher though. Ethnology is a subfield of cultural anthropology. Read
Marvin Harris for the best perspective on culture; his book CULTURAL
MATERIALISM is great, although he incorrectly thinks behavioral psychology
(my theoretical school) is something else than it is (he was welcomed into
the inner circle of behaviorism several years before he died), although he
and a fellow named Ross wrote another fantastic book, much related to our
current world predicament(s) entitled Sex Death and Fertility. Harris also
wrote a wonderful anthropological analysis of modern western society
entitled Why Nothing Works. I bet they are all available at Amazon. Yes, see
below:
Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture
Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture by Marvin Harris (Paperback - Jul
1998)
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Our Kind : Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going
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Excerpt from Back Matter: "... of Humans Food Habits, ed. Marvin Harris and
Eric Ross, 207-223. Philadelphia: ..."
See more references to Marvin Harris in this book.
Surprise me! See a random page in this book.
Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for a Science of Culture, Updated Edition
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: The Struggle for a Science of Culture, Updated Edition by Marvin Harris
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James A. Mulick, Ph.D.
Professor, Pediatrics & Psychology
The Ohio State University
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Fascinating Dr. Mulick. Thanks for your views on this, including your
comments about phenotypes. I know you are familiar with Richard Dawkins'
writing on The Extended Phenotype - and Daniel Dennett on the evolution of
life and logic of natural selection and hierarchy of life at which natural
selection can be said to act. I know Dennett, who teaches philosophy, is an
ethologist (as opposed to an ethnologist) but I'm still a bit confused about
ethnology as a sub-type or a field of study? Why not simply call it the
study of development of people/culture (and what they do) or simply
anthropology? Isn't that what it is?
I read something about Grandin. That is the one who I believe draws the link
between autism and (I believe) dogs. Wouldn't it also be very unusual for
someone to have autism, as she claims, and get through post-doc?
There are so many exciting new fields today, like sociobiology and
ethologists. I almost wish I could start over and get into anything dealing
with molecular theory, the Genome, biological ethics, etc. Much of it is way
above my pay grade and comprehension but that is almost all I read, except
for politics (g).
Hank
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