Agustin Fuentes
Autor/a de The Creative Spark: How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional
Sobre l'autor
Agustin Fuentes is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Core Concepts in Biological Anthropology (2006) and coauthor/editor of Health, Risk and Adversity (2008), Primates in Perspective (OUP, 2006), Primates Face to Face: The Conservation Implications of mostra'n més Human-Nonhuman Primate Interconnections (2002), and The Nonhuman Primates (1999). mostra'n menys
Obres de Agustin Fuentes
Why We Believe: Evolution and the Human Way of Being (Foundational Questions in Science) (2019) 30 exemplars
Centralizing fieldwork : critical perspectives from primatology, biological, and social anthropology (2010) 5 exemplars
Monkeys on the edge ecology and management of long-tailed macaques and their interface with humans (2011) 5 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1966-07-30
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Educació
- University of California, Berkeley (BA, 1989, MA, 1991, PhD, 1994, biological anthropology)
- Professions
- anthropolgist
- Organitzacions
- University of Notre Dame
Membres
Ressenyes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
EstadÃstiques
- Obres
- 14
- Membres
- 222
- Popularitat
- #100,929
- Valoració
- 3.6
- Ressenyes
- 4
- ISBN
- 48
- Llengües
- 1
Of course I am not well versed enough to be able to make a general assessment of this book, but a number of aspects that I do know something about (the evolution from hominids to humans, for example) allow me to say that this is a very solid, up-to-date to date book that offers a truly global look at both the uniqueness of humans and their embeddedness in the natural environment. I know, anthropocentrism has long since ceased to be woke, but I think we should certainly dare to face the ways in which our species distinguishes itselve – for better and for worse – from our environment. Fuentes rightly follows the nuanced middle ground.
In itself, the focus on creativity is not so earth-shattering and unique. As the book shows, behind that notion lies a complex interaction of consciousness, imagination, cognitive abilities, communication skills, cooperation, and so on. As a result, this book offers much more than an investigation into where and how human creativity originated (the question in itself - in that formulation - is of course nonsensical).
More in my History account on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2386756790 .… (més)