Erect men, undulating women : the visual imagery of gender, race and progress in reconstructive illustrations of human evolution / Melanie G. Wiber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wiber, Melanie, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropological illustration--Social aspects.

Anthropological illustration.

Feminist anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 290 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The author provides a deeper understanding of popularized illustrations of human origins and encourages readers to gain a sensitivity to the ways in which Western culture constructs scientific findings that are compatible with its deeply held beliefs and values.

Contents:

Front Matter

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Of Gender, "Race" Progress and Evolution: Human Evolution Reconstructive Illustration

Contested Knowledge in the Human Evolution Story Field: Man the Hunter versus Woman the Gatherer

Reconstructive Human Evolution Illustrations: Utilizing Western Art Conventions in a Contested Story Field

Gender: The Ubiquitous Story Operator

Conflation and the Significant Other: Racism and Codes of the Primitive

Window or Mirror? Primates and Foragers: Analogies of the Pre- Cultural Life

Progress: Inevitable as Moral Rewards-The Ultimate Story Operator

Lucy as Barbie Doll: Eroticism in the Human Evolution Meta-Narrative

The Commodification of Human Evolution: Selling a Story Field through Illustrations

Conclusions and Future Directions for Research

Figures

References Cited

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-278) and index.

ISBN:

9786613811028

9780889203082

0889203083

9781282233287

1282233289

9780889205574

0889205574

OCLC:

180704486