Böcker av Susan McKinnon

Among a growing number of ethnographies of Eastern Indonesia that deal with cosmology, exchange and kinship, this book confronts issues originally broached by Edmund Leach and Claude Levi-Strauss, concerning the relation between hierarchy and equality in asymmetric systems of marriage.

Evolutionary psychology claims to be the authoritative science of "human nature." But do the answers that evolutionary psychologists provide about language, sex, and social relations add up? The author thinks not. In this book, she offers a sustained and accessible critique of the myths of human nature fabricated by evolutionary psychologists.