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- catalog abstract "Based on intensive study of human origin illustrations, responses from students and colleagues and research into reconstructive illustration and feminist criticism of Western art, this book traces the subtle ways in which paleoanthropological conventions have influenced and have shifted in the creation of these illustrations. Wiber reveals that embedded meanings in these illustrations go beyond gender to include two other ubiquitous themes - racial superiority and upward cultural progress. Underlying all these themes, she found a basic conservatism in the paleoanthropological approach to evolutionary theory. Erect Men/Undulating Women provides a deeper understanding of popularized illustrations of human origins, but, more importantly, it 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.".
- catalog contributor b10351339.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description "1. Of gender, "race," progress and evolution: human evolution reconstructive illustration -- 2. Contested knowledge in the human evolution story field: man the hunter versus woman the gatherer -- 3. Reconstructive human evolution illustrations: utilizing western art conventions in a contested story field -- 4. Gender: the ubiquitous story operator -- 5. Conflation and the significant other: racism and codes of the primitive -- 6. Window or mirror? primates and foragers: analogies of the pre-cultural life -- 7. Progress: inevitable as moral rewards -- The ultimate story operator -- 8. Lucy as Barbie doll: eroticism in the human evolution meta-narrative -- 9. The commodification of human evolution: selling a story field through illustrations.".
- catalog description "Based on intensive study of human origin illustrations, responses from students and colleagues and research into reconstructive illustration and feminist criticism of Western art, this book traces the subtle ways in which paleoanthropological conventions have influenced and have shifted in the creation of these illustrations. Wiber reveals that embedded meanings in these illustrations go beyond gender to include two other ubiquitous themes - racial superiority and upward cultural progress. Underlying all these themes, she found a basic conservatism in the paleoanthropological approach to evolutionary theory. Erect Men/Undulating Women provides a deeper understanding of popularized illustrations of human origins, but, more importantly, it 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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-278) and index.".
- catalog extent "ix, 290 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Erect men/undulating women.".
- catalog identifier "0889202745 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Erect men/undulating women.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press,".
- catalog relation "Erect men/undulating women.".
- catalog subject "301/.082 21".
- catalog subject "Anthropological illustration Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "Feminist anthropology.".
- catalog subject "GN799.W66 W53 1997".
- catalog subject "Human evolution.".
- catalog subject "Sex role.".
- catalog subject "Women, Prehistoric.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Of gender, "race," progress and evolution: human evolution reconstructive illustration -- 2. Contested knowledge in the human evolution story field: man the hunter versus woman the gatherer -- 3. Reconstructive human evolution illustrations: utilizing western art conventions in a contested story field -- 4. Gender: the ubiquitous story operator -- 5. Conflation and the significant other: racism and codes of the primitive -- 6. Window or mirror? primates and foragers: analogies of the pre-cultural life -- 7. Progress: inevitable as moral rewards -- The ultimate story operator -- 8. Lucy as Barbie doll: eroticism in the human evolution meta-narrative -- 9. The commodification of human evolution: selling a story field through illustrations.".
- catalog title "Erect men/undulating women : the visual imagery of gender, race and progress in reconstructive illustrations of human evolution / Melanie G. Wiber.".
- catalog type "text".