Author: Marks Jonathan
Publisher: Routledge Ltd
ISSN: 0093-8157
Source: Reviews in Anthropology, Vol.42, Iss.4, 2013-10, pp. : 207-226
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Abstract
Unlike other scientific fields, anthropology popularizations are as likely as not to be written by scientists who are not themselves experts in the subject. This is because the subject, the scientific knowledge of our origin and patterns of bio-cultural diversity—or more broadly, who we are and where we come from—is the source of our culturally authoritative origin myths, and consequently of broad general interest in and of itself. But anthropology popularizations come with the responsibility not only to get the facts and theory correct, but as well to understand the history and embedded politics in the stories themselves.
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