Society Against Nature: The Emergence of Human SocietiesHarvester Press, 1976 - 158 pages |
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Page 55
... objects , and aggressive tools for attack and defence . The former are more or less common to most species ; the latter are exclusive to primates and anthropoids . It is not surprising that hominids , living in the circumstances we have ...
... objects , and aggressive tools for attack and defence . The former are more or less common to most species ; the latter are exclusive to primates and anthropoids . It is not surprising that hominids , living in the circumstances we have ...
Page 56
... object or stretching out to seize it . The hand has to grasp an object firmly and keep it steady . For manual activity firmness and precision of grip are combined . The firm grip steadies the object by clamping it between the partially ...
... object or stretching out to seize it . The hand has to grasp an object firmly and keep it steady . For manual activity firmness and precision of grip are combined . The firm grip steadies the object by clamping it between the partially ...
Page 130
... objects are identified as persons ; in our social structures , on the contrary , social government is concerned with objects , hierarchy is based on ownership and individuals become identified as objects . 78 It is not unreasonable to ...
... objects are identified as persons ; in our social structures , on the contrary , social government is concerned with objects , hierarchy is based on ownership and individuals become identified as objects . 78 It is not unreasonable to ...
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