Society Against Nature: The Emergence of Human SocietiesHarvester Press, 1976 - 158 pages |
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... involved in our emergence from nature . Georges Bataille recently observed that to accept such a discontinuity : is to go from one abstraction to another , and to overlook the moment when the whole of being was caught up in change . I ...
... involved in our emergence from nature . Georges Bataille recently observed that to accept such a discontinuity : is to go from one abstraction to another , and to overlook the moment when the whole of being was caught up in change . I ...
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... involved individual , organic and social mutations and amplifications when the purpose was to locate feeding grounds of one kind or another in vast , unexplored spaces . A more sustained effort was required , on the one hand because the ...
... involved individual , organic and social mutations and amplifications when the purpose was to locate feeding grounds of one kind or another in vast , unexplored spaces . A more sustained effort was required , on the one hand because the ...
Page 144
... involved their specific activities . This coherent complex consisting of human beings and the means , implements and skills they had acquired could only be maintained and transmitted through sexual reproduction . The union of a man and ...
... involved their specific activities . This coherent complex consisting of human beings and the means , implements and skills they had acquired could only be maintained and transmitted through sexual reproduction . The union of a man and ...
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