Society Against Nature: The Emergence of Human SocietiesHarvester Press, 1976 - 158 pages |
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Page 104
... prohibition of incest is an expression of such discrimination . Incest is condemned in most societies and not many people would commit it willingly . Its prohibition has served as a model for all the prohibitions society has ever ...
... prohibition of incest is an expression of such discrimination . Incest is condemned in most societies and not many people would commit it willingly . Its prohibition has served as a model for all the prohibitions society has ever ...
Page 107
... prohibition of incest establishes an unequal relationship between two elements of a society , this aspect is generally overlooked , and the prohibition is seen as a physical law created by man on behalf of nature and applied uniformly ...
... prohibition of incest establishes an unequal relationship between two elements of a society , this aspect is generally overlooked , and the prohibition is seen as a physical law created by man on behalf of nature and applied uniformly ...
Page 142
... prohibition of incest referred to group relations , not to the relations between a man and a woman . Its transgression would jeopardize social and material stability , but could only marginally affect individual relationships . On the ...
... prohibition of incest referred to group relations , not to the relations between a man and a woman . Its transgression would jeopardize social and material stability , but could only marginally affect individual relationships . On the ...
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