Society Against Nature: The Emergence of Human SocietiesHarvester Press, 1976 - 158 pages |
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... sexual behaviour of primates is not , broadly speaking , promiscuous . In clan societies particularly males sometimes mate exclusively with their own females in more or less regular rotation , according to age and sexual availability ...
... sexual behaviour of primates is not , broadly speaking , promiscuous . In clan societies particularly males sometimes mate exclusively with their own females in more or less regular rotation , according to age and sexual availability ...
Page 84
... sexual life of these poor naked cannibals to be normal in the usual sense of the term , and their sexual urges submitted to any form of restraint . Yet in fact they are very careful and scrupulous in avoiding all incestuous relationship ...
... sexual life of these poor naked cannibals to be normal in the usual sense of the term , and their sexual urges submitted to any form of restraint . Yet in fact they are very careful and scrupulous in avoiding all incestuous relationship ...
Page 96
... sexual reproduction , while mating is highly hierarchized and far from promiscuous or disorganized . Most animal societies are based on distinctions between reproductive and non - reproductive individuals , and the opposition of ...
... sexual reproduction , while mating is highly hierarchized and far from promiscuous or disorganized . Most animal societies are based on distinctions between reproductive and non - reproductive individuals , and the opposition of ...
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