Society Against Nature: The Emergence of Human SocietiesHarvester Press, 1976 - 158 pages |
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Page 78
... instincts and inherited powers of the individual . External nature was then the totality of the material environment . Then man , responding to intrinsic , independent motivations , as a strictly predetermined , autonomous product of ...
... instincts and inherited powers of the individual . External nature was then the totality of the material environment . Then man , responding to intrinsic , independent motivations , as a strictly predetermined , autonomous product of ...
Page 83
... instincts at bay ; animal societies provide the necessary restraint for animal instincts . As Konrad Lorenz observes , the evolution of instinctive behaviour in the zoological system proves how pointless it is to speak of ' instinct ...
... instincts at bay ; animal societies provide the necessary restraint for animal instincts . As Konrad Lorenz observes , the evolution of instinctive behaviour in the zoological system proves how pointless it is to speak of ' instinct ...
Page 107
... instinct in favour of it , and that if the law represses it , as it represses other natural instincts , it does so because civilised men have come to the conclusion that the satisfaction of these natural instincts is detrimental to the ...
... instinct in favour of it , and that if the law represses it , as it represses other natural instincts , it does so because civilised men have come to the conclusion that the satisfaction of these natural instincts is detrimental to 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