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Are We Social Beings?: Identity and Culture
"Are We Social Beings?" looks at the relationship between personality and culture while contrasting the atomistic and societal views of the self represented by Descartes and Hegel. Using the endangered culture of the Laplanders in Sweden as the basi...
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Waves of Change: Winnemem Wintu Make A Stand, The
The Winnemem Wintu tribe joins forces with environmental activists in an effort to persuade those in political power to recognize the tribe and put a stop to the raising of Shasta Dam
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Natural Selection and Distant Ancestors
Philosopher Daniel Dennett talks about the conventional wisdom before Darwin that species were fixed eternally. With Darwin came the notion that species that may be very different now have a common ancestor from the very distant past.