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 ground-breaking 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.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 305.3
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 0889202745 9780889205574
- LCCN
- GN799.W66
- LCCN Item number
- W52 1997eb
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- Original cataloging agency
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- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (ix, 290 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)jme00326936 (OCoLC)180704486 (CaOOCEL)402288
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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Table of Contents
- Table of Contents 4
- List of Figures 6
- Acknowledgments 8
- ONE: Of Gender, "Race," Progress and Evolution: Human Evolution Reconstructive Illustration 10
- TWO: Contested Knowledge in the Human Evolution Story Field: Man the Hunter versus Woman the Gatherer 26
- THREE: Reconstructive Human Evolution Illustrations: Utilizing Western Art Conventions in a Contested Story Field 56
- FOUR: Gender: The Ubiquitous Story Operator 84
- FIVE: Conflation and the Significant Other: Racism and Codes of the Primitive 114
- SIX: Window or Mirror? Primates and Foragers: Analogies of the Pre-Cultural Life 130
- SEVEN: Progress: Inevitable as Moral Rewards– The Ultimate Story Operator 162
- EIGHT: Lucy as Barbie Doll: Eroticism in the Human Evolution Meta-Narrative 198
- NINE: The Commodification of Human Evolution: Selling a Story Field through Illustrations 212
- TEN: Conclusions and Future Directions for Research 236
- Figures 250
- References Cited 266
- Index 288
- A 288
- B 289
- C 289
- D 290
- E 290
- F 291
- G 291
- H 292
- I 293
- J 293
- K 293
- L 294
- M 294
- N 295
- O 296
- P 296
- R 297
- S 297
- T 297
- U 298
- V 298
- W 298
- Z 299
