Culture Areas: Africa: Past and Present - Belete Mebratu
Dr. H. James Birx is professor of anthropology at Canisius College,
distinguished research scholar at the State University of New York
at Geneseo, and distinguished visiting professor in the Faculty of
Philology at the University of Belgrade. He has been an invited
scholar at the University of Cambridge and twice at Harvard
University. His publications include authoring the award-winning
Theories of Evolution and editing the award-winning Encyclopedia of
Anthropology, as well as 400 published reviews, articles, chapters,
and encyclopedia entries.
Dr. Birx has given invited presentations at prestigious
universities and academic institutes from Australia, New Zealand
and Mexico to Egypt, Germany and Russia. He has done research at
the Galapagos Islands and Koobi Fora in Kenya, Africa (among many
other sites). His interests include topics in evolutionary biology
and process philosophy. Dr. Birx is presently teaching biological
anthropology, forensic anthropology, anthropology and evolution,
and theories in anthropology. He has contributed six new ideas to
philosophical anthropology: dynamic integrity, will to evolve,
emerging teleology, Homo futurensis, exoevolution, and cosmic over
beings.Dr. Birx′s cultural interests include movies, music
(especially opera), reading novels and global traveling. This year,
he has contributed essays to these two forthcoming books: Wagner &
Nietzsche (Cambridge University Press) and Humanism, Transhumanism,
& Posthumanism (Peter Lang Verlag).
"This latest reference work in anthropology differs positively from
recent encyclopedic surveys of the discipline through its use of 15
themes illustrating major areas of current inquiry.... Summing
Up: Highly recommended. *** Lower-level undergraduates through
faculty/ researchers."-CHOICE
*R.B.M. Ridinger*
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