Society Against Nature: The Emergence of Human SocietiesHarvester Press, 1976 - 158 pages |
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Page 95
... alliance is secondary . In the nomadic world the only way to ensure survival is to have access to the shelter ... alliances and the prohibition of incest are acknowledgements of the family status and of marriage as a natural human ...
... alliance is secondary . In the nomadic world the only way to ensure survival is to have access to the shelter ... alliances and the prohibition of incest are acknowledgements of the family status and of marriage as a natural human ...
Page 99
... alliances between different clans encourage this attitude , and by making them compulsory the society establishes itself as an indispensable entity . According to Lévi - Strauss exogamy provides the only means of maintaining the clan as ...
... alliances between different clans encourage this attitude , and by making them compulsory the society establishes itself as an indispensable entity . According to Lévi - Strauss exogamy provides the only means of maintaining the clan as ...
Page 107
... alliance and for them kinship is a means : women achieve alliance through marriage and kinship is their purpose . If the prohibition of incest marks the transition from nature to culture it is a transition from a state of male and ...
... alliance and for them kinship is a means : women achieve alliance through marriage and kinship is their purpose . If the prohibition of incest marks the transition from nature to culture it is a transition from a state of male and ...
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 anthropoid aptitudes baboons basic become behaviour biological bipedalism chimpanzees clan Claude Lévi-Strauss constitute conventions correspond created culture depends differentiation distinct dominant male emergence endogamy environment established evolution evolutionary exchange existence exogamy fact father foraging function genetic hierarchy hominid Homo erectus human societies hunters hunting independent individual influence initiation instincts intellectual involved Jocasta kinship Laius less Lévi-Strauss living maintain male and female man's Marcel Mauss marriage masculine matrimonial means monkeys monosexual mother mutual natural natural selection non-reproductive objects observed Oedipus organic permanent phenomenon population predacity primate primitive societies prohibition of incest relations relationships represents reproduction restricted rhesus monkeys rituals Robert Jaulin sexes sexual sexual intercourse sexual reproduction significance skills social structure sons species status sub-group subordinate survival symbolic tendency territory Trobriand Islands unit whole woman women young