Society Against Nature: The Emergence of Human SocietiesHarvester Press, 1976 - 158 pages |
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... relations are conditioned by procreativeness , that is by the ability to respond to instinctual demands ; and ... relation . For wherever selective pressure is operative , survival depends on the reproduction of the group and not ...
... relations are conditioned by procreativeness , that is by the ability to respond to instinctual demands ; and ... relation . For wherever selective pressure is operative , survival depends on the reproduction of the group and not ...
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... relation to adult males . Paradoxical as it may seem , homosexual relations were the only sexual relations that had a social dimension ; the submissive ritual of exposing the sexual organs is an example of this . If fathers and sons ...
... relation to adult males . Paradoxical as it may seem , homosexual relations were the only sexual relations that had a social dimension ; the submissive ritual of exposing the sexual organs is an example of this . If fathers and sons ...
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... 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 other hand if present day society ...
... 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 other hand if present day society ...
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