Society Against Nature: The Emergence of Human SocietiesHarvester Press, 1976 - 158 pages |
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Page 51
... evolutionary cycle , they are represented as having severed our links with the common , natural cause to set us up in the distinctive solitude of which we are so proud and so afraid . ' Employment of tools appears to be ( man's ) chief ...
... evolutionary cycle , they are represented as having severed our links with the common , natural cause to set us up in the distinctive solitude of which we are so proud and so afraid . ' Employment of tools appears to be ( man's ) chief ...
Page 96
... evolutionary stage of this substitution is concerned . For celibacy is compulsory in primate societies for all those who are excluded from sexual reproduction , while mating is highly hierarchized and far from promiscuous or ...
... evolutionary stage of this substitution is concerned . For celibacy is compulsory in primate societies for all those who are excluded from sexual reproduction , while mating is highly hierarchized and far from promiscuous or ...
Page 147
... evolutionary turning point where man and animal parted company . It promoted the numerical growth as well as the diversity of the species . Bipedalism gave rise to neuro - physiological changes which in turn led to new modes of ...
... evolutionary turning point where man and animal parted company . It promoted the numerical growth as well as the diversity of the species . Bipedalism gave rise to neuro - physiological changes which in turn led to new modes 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 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