Background
Merryl Wyn Davies was born on 23 June 1948 in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales.
(Charles Darwin evolutionized the western view of human de...)
Charles Darwin evolutionized the western view of human development and inaugurated a paradigmatic shift that has reverberated throughout science ever since. His work and conclusions surrounding evolution, however, have been employed in areas utterly distinct from biology to become justifications for ideology across the politial spectrum. This rise of fundamentalism, both political and religious, has been a harrowing reminder that liberal democracy cannot hope to automatically succeed irrespective of cultural context. This book examines the use of Darwinist ideas in a plethora of regimes, and considers his legacy and reception outside the scientific community in which he ostensibly worked.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1840461772/?tag=2022091-20
(Charles Darwin evolutionized the western view of human de...)
Charles Darwin evolutionized the western view of human development and inaugurated a paradigmatic shift that has reverberated throughout science ever since. His work and conclusions surrounding evolution, however, have been employed in areas utterly distinct from biology to become justifications for ideology across the politial spectrum. This rise of fundamentalism, both political and religious, has been a harrowing reminder that liberal democracy cannot hope to automatically succeed irrespective of cultural context. This book examines the use of Darwinist ideas in a plethora of regimes, and considers his legacy and reception outside the scientific community in which he ostensibly worked.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B018CJNJ3U/?tag=2022091-20
anthropologist journalist writer
Merryl Wyn Davies was born on 23 June 1948 in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales.
University College London.
After reading anthropology at University College, London, Davies began a career in broadcasting and journalism. A writer on Islam, Davies pioneered a new approach to Islamic anthropology and a highly original critique of America based on Hollywood films. In her work, Knowing One Another: Shaping an Islamic Anthropology, Davies developed a new mode of inquiry which she described, ‘after ibn Khaldun, as ilm ul umran’: a radical discourse shaped by dialogue between civilisations and cultures and based on an holistic understanding of what it means to be human.
Anthropology, Davies argued, is basic to fostering understanding between and amongst people.
In three books on America, written with Ziauddin Sardar, Davies develops ‘laws of American mythology’ (‘Fear is essential’. ‘Escape is the reason for being’, ‘America is the idea of nation’, ‘American democracy has the right to be imperial and express itself through empire’, ‘cinema is the engine of empire’ etc) which, she argues, are essential to understand the psychology of America the security state, its foreign policy and international behaviour.
(Charles Darwin evolutionized the western view of human de...)
(Charles Darwin evolutionized the western view of human de...)