Society Against Nature: The Emergence of Human SocietiesHarvester Press, 1976 - 158 pages |
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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 ...
Page 141
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Page 142
... culture ; rather , our specific society and culture have made it inevitable , but only in the domestic sphere where the bonds of affinity and security which unite small groups and close kin still survive . In other words it concerns ...
... culture ; rather , our specific society and culture have made it inevitable , but only in the domestic sphere where the bonds of affinity and security which unite small groups and close kin still survive . In other words it concerns ...
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