Conversations about Anthropology and Sociology.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burton, Howard.

Series:

Ideas Roadshow Collections

Ideas Roadshow Collections ; v.20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology.

Sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Open Agenda Publishing, 2021.

Summary:

Conversations About Anthropology & Sociology is a five-part Ideas Roadshow Collection of carefully-edited Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading experts with a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. All five books include a detailed essay setting up the different ideas and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter. The following experts have participated in this Collection: 1. Joseph Curtin, MacArthur Fellow, violinmaker and acoustician;2. Fred Gitelman, world-champion bridge player and co-founder of Bridge Base Online;3. Mark Maslin, Professor of Geography at University College London;4. Ian Stewart, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick and bestselling science and science fiction writer;5. Frans de Waal, the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Primate Behavior in the Department of Psychology at Emory University and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory.Howard Burton is the creator and host of Ideas Roadshow and was the Founding Executive Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and an MA in philosophy.

Contents:

Intro

Textual Note

Preface

In the Cards

A conversation with Fred Gitelman

Introduction

I. Bridge Background

II. A Personal Perspective

III. The Bridge Business

IV. At the Summit

V. Critical Times?

The Joy of Mathematics

A conversation with Ian Stewart

I. Fear and Loathing

II. Doing Mathematics

III. Teaching Mathematics

IV. Mathematics and Gender

V. Mathematics Everywhere

Continuing the Conversation

The Science of Siren Songs

Stradivari Unveiled

A conversation with Joseph Curtin

I. Finding One's Niche

II. Confronting Biases

III. Characterizing Sound

IV. Making Modern Violins

V. The Future Awaits

On Atheists and Bonobos

A conversation with Frans de Waal

I. Denying Our Inner Animal

II. Morality and Evolution

III. The Demise of Veneer Theory

IV. The Roots of Religion

V. Community Concern

VI. Beyond Theatrics

VII. American Exceptionalism

VIII. Testing Morality

IX. Reasons for Optimism

X. Breaking Down Barriers

Embracing the Anthropocene

Managing Human Impact

A conversation with Mark Maslin

I. Becoming A Geographer

II. The Anthropocene

III. What We Know

IV. Unchecked Opinion

V. Planetary Perspectives

VI. Becoming Social

Continuing the Conversation.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781771701839

1771701838

9781771701761

1771701765

OCLC:

1255228487