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Comprehensively assessing anthropology's engagement with climate change, this volume both maps out exciting trajectories for research and issues a call to action. Linking sophisticated knowledge to effective actions, 'Anthropology and Climate Change' is essential for students and scholars in anthropology and environmental studies.

This supplementary reader offers both historical and contemporary articles that demonstrate the nature of biological anthropology. With nearly one-third of the selections focusing on living populations, the 43 readings cover the entire range of bioanthropological studies: evolution, nonhuman primates, human paleontology, and modern human groups. Twelve of the 43 articles are new to this edition, including Kari Bruwelheide and Douglas Owsley's "Written in Bone: Reading the Remains of the 17th Century"; Carl Zimmer's "What is a Species?"; Daniel E. Lieberman's "Homing In On Early "Homo""; and Sally Lehrman's "Going Beyond X and Y."

Certain social scientists from Europe, the US, and Australia were invited to treat various aspects of the slippery concept of power as it pervades the social sciences, in order to provide exemplars by which other researchers could extrapolate to deal with power in particular contexts and manifestations. Within the overall themes of the theoretical framework, related analytical concepts, and substantive issues, they consider such topics as rational choice approaches, spatial shifts in the architecture of globalization, power and identity, power and legitimacy from Weber to contemporary theory, managing power in organizations, cultures of resistance in the workplace, and the state and power. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Anthropologists in Arms traces the troubled history of social scientists' collaboration with national military, security, and intelligence organizations and analyzes the moral and ethical debates provoked by the rise of _military anthropology_--particularly the practice of embedding anthropologists with combat troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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