Society Against Nature: The Emergence of Human SocietiesHarvester Press, 1976 - 158 pages |
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... means , of behaviour , achieves similar ends . Ecological changes evidently create similarities in the social structure and relationships of neighbouring communities . But discrepancies in degrees of individual and communal freedom ...
... means , of behaviour , achieves similar ends . Ecological changes evidently create similarities in the social structure and relationships of neighbouring communities . But discrepancies in degrees of individual and communal freedom ...
Page 80
... means of suppressing imperious desires or a general , autonomous , organic process . Moreover we are implicitly invited to collaborate in this suppression , if we do not want to relapse into prehistoric chaos and forego the support of a ...
... means of suppressing imperious desires or a general , autonomous , organic process . Moreover we are implicitly invited to collaborate in this suppression , if we do not want to relapse into prehistoric chaos and forego the support of a ...
Page 105
... means of sharing goodwill and possessions , including women , warrants the sacrifice . 28 Through this compulsory sharing strangers become relatives and potential enemies become comrades . The transfer of women is more than the simple ...
... means of sharing goodwill and possessions , including women , warrants the sacrifice . 28 Through this compulsory sharing strangers become relatives and potential enemies become comrades . The transfer of women is more than the simple ...
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