Human Origins : : Contributions from Social Anthropology /

Human Origins : : Contributions from Social Anthropology / / ed. by Camilla Power, Morna Finnegan, Hilary Callan.

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Human Origins brings together new thinking by social anthropologists and other scholars on the evolution of human culture and society. No other discipline has more relevant expertise to consider the emergence of humans as the symbolic species. Yet, social anthropologists have been conspicuously abse...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
MitwirkendeR:
Ardener, Shirley G.,
Barnard, Alan,
Callan, Hilary,
Ellen, Roy,
Finnegan, Morna,
Hoefler, Stefan,
James, Wendy,
Joseph, Suzanne E.,
Knight, Chris,
Lewis, Jerome,
Low, Chris,
Power, Camilla,
Skaanes, Thea,
Smith, Andrew D.M.,
Watts, Ian,
HerausgeberIn:
Callan, Hilary,
Finnegan, Morna,
Power, Camilla,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Methodology & History in Anthropology ; 30
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Physical Description:1 online resource (364 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Chapter 1 FORTY YEARS ON: BIOSOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY REVISITED
  • Chapter 2 RETHINKING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STUDIES OF ETHNOBIOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AND THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN CULTURAL COGNITION
  • Chapter 3 TOWARDS A THEORY OF EVERYTHING
  • Chapter 4 SEXUAL INSULT AND FEMALE MILITANCY
  • Chapter 5 WHO SEES THE ELEPHANT? SEXUAL EGALITARIANISM IN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY’S ROOM
  • Chapter 6 FROM METAPHOR TO SYMBOLS AND GRAMMAR: THE CUMULATIVE CULTURAL EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE
  • Chapter 7 RECONSTRUCTING A SOURCE COSMOLOGY FOR AFRICAN HUNTER-GATHERERS
  • Chapter 8 SOUNDS IN THE NIGHT: RITUAL BELLS, THERIANTHROPES AND ELAND RELATIONS AMONG THE HADZA
  • Chapter 9 HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY, SAN SHAMANIC HEALING AND THE ‘COGNITIVE REVOLUTION’
  • Chapter 10 RAIN SERPENTS IN NORTHERN AUSTRALIA AND SOUTHERN AFRICA: A COMMON ANCESTRY?
  • Chapter 11 BEDOUIN MATRILINEALITY REVISITED
  • Chapter 12 ‘FROM LUCY TO LANGUAGE: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE SOCIAL BRAIN’ AN OPEN INVITATION FOR SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY TO JOIN THE EVOLUTIONARY DEBATE
  • AFTERWORD
  • INDEX

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