Society Against Nature: The Emergence of Human SocietiesHarvester Press, 1976 - 158 pages |
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... existence the theory becomes scientifically untenable . African , American and Australian savages have practically vanished from the face of the earth . Societies which had stagnated for centuries are making up for lost time . In our ...
... existence the theory becomes scientifically untenable . African , American and Australian savages have practically vanished from the face of the earth . Societies which had stagnated for centuries are making up for lost time . In our ...
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... existence has been observed by a number of ethologists . The first tend to be assertive , aggressive and nimble ; the others , unsociable , timid and inhibited . For the underprivileged members of these communities the answer is to ...
... existence has been observed by a number of ethologists . The first tend to be assertive , aggressive and nimble ; the others , unsociable , timid and inhibited . For the underprivileged members of these communities the answer is to ...
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... existence and it is what is implied in our biological and sociological theories . It also dominates our everyday existence . Yet we cannot help wondering if this obsession with human order as opposed to animal disorder , this aversion ...
... existence and it is what is implied in our biological and sociological theories . It also dominates our everyday existence . Yet we cannot help wondering if this obsession with human order as opposed to animal disorder , this aversion ...
Contents
Early Primates | 1 |
Societies Without Speech | 9 |
The Demands of Social Life | 15 |
Copyright | |
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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