Primeval Kinship : : How Pair-Bonding Gave Birth to Human Society / / Bernard Chapais.
"At some point in the course of evolution-from a primeval social organization of early hominids-all human societies, past and present, would emerge. In this account of the dawn of human society, Bernard Chapais shows that our knowledge about kinship and society in nonhuman primates supports, an...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The Question of the Origin of Human Society
- I PRIMATOLOGISTS AS EVOLUTIONARY HISTORIANS
- 2 Primatology and the Evolution of Human Behavior
- 3 The Uterine Kinship Legacy
- 4 From Biological to Cultural Kinship
- 5 The Incest Avoidance Legacy
- 6 From Behavioral Regularities to Institutionalized Rules
- II THE EXOGAMY CONFIGURATION DECOMPOSED
- 7 Lévi-Strauss and the Deep Structure of Human Society
- 8 Human Society Out of the Evolutionary Vacuum
- 9 The Building Blocks of Exogamy
- III THE EXOGAMY CONFIGURATION RECONSTRUCTED
- 10 The Ancestral Male Kin Group Hypothesis
- 11 The Evolutionary History of Pair-Bonding
- 12 Pair-Bonding and the Reinvention of Kinship
- 13 Biparentality and the Transformation of Siblingships
- 14 Beyond the Local Group: The Rise of the Tribe
- 15 From Male Philopatry to Residential Diversity
- 16 Brothers, Sisters, and the Founding Principle of Exogamy
- IV UNILINEAL DESCENT
- 17 Filiation, Descent, and Ideology
- 18 The Primate Origins of Unilineal Descent Groups
- 19 The Evolutionary History of Human Descent
- 20 Conclusion: Human Society as Contingent
- References
- Index