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More homework for ya
I've been revisiting Buller's Adapting Minds recently, which has some chapters criticizing alleged "evolved" sex differences. The chapters can stand on their own, but the whole thing is worth reading as it's the most informed critique of evolutionary psychology I've found yet (I'm a bit more "pro-EP" than Buller, but I think most of his criticism is spot on). In any case, it's far more accurate than the picture painted by pop evo psych.
More work! I've just been digging up a lot of stuff recently for this "cognition and culture" project I've been working on for a while and it seems like stuff you would like. Colin Renfrew is apparently a big shot in "cognitive archaeology," one of his anthologies some interesting stuff on religion. Dahlberg also has a good debunking of Flintstones-esque pop anthropology (though that first chapter is a bit sketchy IMO).
Nice! I can't wait to read this.
Oh, I'm sure I'll have another entire bookshelf of recommendations by the time I'm done with this thing. It's already fucking gargantuan.
Is this a dissertation? A term project? or just a personal project?
Term project, though it ended up being a bit more sweeping in scope than I had originally planned.
Yeah, then you learn the art of "How can i make this one term project work for all 5 of my classes". :-)
When you are in classes with similar scopes, some profs don't really mind, especially if you are totally "into" the one paper.
Yeah, I feel like it would be pretty easy to just swap in relevant case studies while leaving the theoretical parts untouched for another course. Also, found some more for ya.
I just learned that Tanya is a work of Hasidic philo. huh. the things you learn when you do the wrong search in google.
Wrong searches have made me want to un-learn some things.
Luckily, I've never found anything too bothersome. I am really unable to see dead things, especially humans. I try to be very careful when googling some things like middle eastern news. But so far, I've lucked out.
No ugly naked people, strange sexual encounters, etc...