Complexities

Preface
Introduction
Susan McKinnon and Sydel Silverman
I. Challenging Reductive Theories of Mind
1. Epigenesis, Brain Plasticity, and Behavioral Versatility: Alternatives to Standard Evolutionary Psychology Models
Kathleen R. Gibson
2. Do Humans Have Innate Mental Structures? Some Arguments from Linguistics
William A. Foley
3. The Eye of the Beholder: How Linguistic Categorization Affects "Natural" Experience
Eve Danziger
II. The Limits of Universal Models
4. Reassessing Male Aggression and Dominance: The Evidence from Primatology
Katherine C. MacKinnon and Agustin Fuentes
5. On Kinship and Marriage: A Critique of the Genetic and Gender Calculus of Evolutionary Psychology
Susan McKinnon
6. Surveying a Cultural "Waistland": Some Biological Poetics and Politics of the Female Body
Mary Orgel, Jacqueline Urla, and Alan Swedlund
7. Denaturalizing Gender in Prehistory
Lynn Meskell
III. Putting Genes in Context
8. Context and Complexity in Human Biological Research
Thomas Leatherman and Alan Goodman
9. Alzheimer's Disease: A Tangled Concept
Margaret Lock
10. The Molecular Revolution in Medicine: Promise, Reality, and Social Organization
Karen-Sue Taussig
IV. The Politics of Reductionism
11. Barbarism, Old and New: Denaturalizing the Rhetoric of Warfare
Mary H. Moran
12. Language Standardization and the Complexities of Communicative Practice
John J. Gumperz and Jenny Cook-Gomperz
13. Blood and Belonging: Long-Distance Nationalism and the World Beyond
Nina Glick Schiller
List of Contributors
Index