Society Against Nature: The Emergence of Human SocietiesHarvester Press, 1976 - 158 pages |
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Page 63
... skills studied by ethologists ( such as the organism's internalization of postures and movements ) . Training is superimposed on this at a later stage . We should not forget that until quite recently children were trained in practices ...
... skills studied by ethologists ( such as the organism's internalization of postures and movements ) . Training is superimposed on this at a later stage . We should not forget that until quite recently children were trained in practices ...
Page 66
... skills and methods ; the latter involves the creation of different and often contradictory skills and methods . With the appearance of man this division provided a new solution to a problem hitherto solved by natural selection : the ...
... skills and methods ; the latter involves the creation of different and often contradictory skills and methods . With the appearance of man this division provided a new solution to a problem hitherto solved by natural selection : the ...
Page 87
... skills which require specialized techniques and organized groups . Communality originally had as much bearing on consumption as on a rudimentary form of production . Monkeys and anthropoids feed independently ; no sooner are they weaned ...
... skills which require specialized techniques and organized groups . Communality originally had as much bearing on consumption as on a rudimentary form of production . Monkeys and anthropoids feed independently ; no sooner are they weaned ...
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