Reviews

If you are the type of reader who prefers a challenging text, then (this) is the book for you ...' 'Cullen applies the viral analogy to cultural material and provides a highly intellectual read.'-- "Archaeology Ireland, Summer 2001"

This is an excellent, interesting, clever, important book, which has taught me much, made me think more, and differently, and made me wish I had been able to read it years ago.' 'Many authors have attempted to tackle the problems involved with the culture-biology dichotomy, either as biological anthropologists foraying into cultural theory or vice versa. Not many of them have made as good a job of it as Cullen ...' 'This is the sort of book which seems to articulate what you have always known, but could never quite get a handle on.' 'I would recommend this book to anyone who actually wants to understand, explore and work on the relationship between the cultural and biological elements of human life ...'--Jennie Hawcroft "Assemblage" (6/1/2001 12:00:00 AM)