Society Against Nature: The Emergence of Human SocietiesHarvester Press, 1976 - 158 pages |
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... rituals and pomp with which it is surrounded make it a memorable , exciting public occasion . However the transaction on which it depends is based on symbolic thought . It had to be preceded by language and reflects a departure from ...
... rituals and pomp with which it is surrounded make it a memorable , exciting public occasion . However the transaction on which it depends is based on symbolic thought . It had to be preceded by language and reflects a departure from ...
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... rituals . The true significance of the initiation tests has not been fully grasped . Gregory Bateson writes : " To ... ritual involves a kind of exorcism of the female in every male . It imparts a social convention , debasing ...
... rituals . The true significance of the initiation tests has not been fully grasped . Gregory Bateson writes : " To ... ritual involves a kind of exorcism of the female in every male . It imparts a social convention , debasing ...
Page 123
... rituals celebrates a renewed victory over a perennial enemy , and initiation itself is only another aspect of woman's subjection to man , no different in this respect from the segregation of habitat and diet . - Hence men and women ...
... rituals celebrates a renewed victory over a perennial enemy , and initiation itself is only another aspect of woman's subjection to man , no different in this respect from the segregation of habitat and diet . - Hence men and women ...
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