| dc.contributor.author | Even, Megan Lynn | |
| dc.description.abstract | Neandertal interpretation is changing the paradigm of human uniqueness, but exactly
how needs to be examined. This paper provides a qualitative analysis of how Neandertal
descriptions embed long-held cultural attitudes and how those cultural attitudes are being
challenged and, in some ways, reaffirmed through rhetoric. A rhetorical analysis was performed
on the second and third editions of a widely used physical anthropology textbook, Clark
Spencer Larsen’s Our Origins. Both editions rhetorically favor a view of Neandertals as more
similar to than different from us, a view which appears at odds with the disciplinary preference.
Larsen appeals to the disciplinary preference in the second edition by only implicitly favoring
similarities, but the third edition is more explicit in its favoring of similarities. The analysis of
Larsen’s text provides examples of how rhetors can continue to move readers toward a new
view of Neandertals, despite the current disciplinary preference for Neandertal classification. | en_US |
| dc.publisher | North Dakota State University | en_US |
| dc.rights | NDSU Policy 190.6.2 | |
| dc.title | From Homo stupidus to Homo sapiens: Changing and Reaffirming the Paradigm of Human Uniqueness Through Neandertal Descriptions | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-04-03T18:28:30Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-04-03T18:28:30Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10365/27913 | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdf | en_US |
| ndsu.degree | Master of Arts (MA) | en_US |
| ndsu.college | Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences | en_US |
| ndsu.department | English | en_US |
| ndsu.program | English | en_US |
| ndsu.advisor | Sullivan, Dale | |
