Society Against Nature: The Emergence of Human SocietiesHarvester Press, 1976 - 158 pages |
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... culture and evolution . One of the aims of society is to erect barriers against the individual instinctive urges which threaten collective organization . Such repression has both a negative and a positive aspect . On the one hand it is ...
... culture and evolution . One of the aims of society is to erect barriers against the individual instinctive urges which threaten collective organization . Such repression has both a negative and a positive aspect . On the one hand it is ...
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... culture and nature is the historical outcome of a process of a selection . - According to this theory society sprang fully fledged from its exact opposite - chaotic , organic , individualistic bestiality – after a period of transition ...
... culture and nature is the historical outcome of a process of a selection . - According to this theory society sprang fully fledged from its exact opposite - chaotic , organic , individualistic bestiality – after a period of transition ...
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... culture . Incest in certain societies the privilege of an elite is a token of such a rebellion , the abolition of a prohibition in favour of a new order . It is dreaded because it is associated to some extent with the legendary Reign of ...
... culture . Incest in certain societies the privilege of an elite is a token of such a rebellion , the abolition of a prohibition in favour of a new order . It is dreaded because it is associated to some extent with the legendary Reign of ...
Contents
Early Primates | 1 |
Societies Without Speech | 9 |
The Demands of Social Life | 15 |
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activities adaptation adolescents adult males affiliation societies alliances animal societies anthropoid aptitudes Australopithecus baboons basic become behaviour biological bipedalism cerebral cortex chimpanzees clan constitute created depends differentiation distinct division dominant male ecological emergence endogamy environment established Ethologists evolution evolutionary existence exogamy exploited fact foraging function gathering geladas genetic habitat hierarchy hominids Homo erectus human societies hunters hunting independent individual influence initiation instincts intellectual involved Jocasta kinship labour laws less Lévi-Strauss living maintain male and female man's Marcel Mauss marriage matrimonial monkeys monosexual mother mutations mutual natural selection non-reproductive objects observed pattern permanent phenomenon physical and anatomical population predacity prey primate primitive societies prohibition of incest relations relationships reproduction restricted rhesus monkeys rituals sexes sexual sexual intercourse sexual reproduction significance skills social organization social structure species status sub-group subordinate survival symbolic tendency territory Trobriand Islands unit women young