Society Against Nature: The Emergence of Human SocietiesHarvester Press, 1976 - 158 pages |
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Page 98
... clans would be particularly susceptible to such a risk . In a clan comprising about fifty members , or nine procreative couples , given the fertility rate of one child per couple every three years , there is little chance of more than ...
... clans would be particularly susceptible to such a risk . In a clan comprising about fifty members , or nine procreative couples , given the fertility rate of one child per couple every three years , there is little chance of more than ...
Page 99
... clans should be concluded in its name and should favour its unity ; while each clan requires that its isolation should be temporary , for it cannot afford to forego the right to be included in the communal structure which provides ...
... clans should be concluded in its name and should favour its unity ; while each clan requires that its isolation should be temporary , for it cannot afford to forego the right to be included in the communal structure which provides ...
Page 134
... clan are always natives of another and each clan is composed of two socially distinct halves . Birdsell observes : " The woman's position there is such that she has little chance to influence language , ceremony or male functions in the ...
... clan are always natives of another and each clan is composed of two socially distinct halves . Birdsell observes : " The woman's position there is such that she has little chance to influence language , ceremony or male functions in the ...
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