Society Against Nature: The Emergence of Human SocietiesHumanities Press, 1976 - 158 pages |
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Page 78
... instincts and inherited powers of the individual . External nature was then the totality of the material environment . Then man , responding to intrinsic , independent motivations , as a strictly predetermined , autonomous product of ...
... instincts and inherited powers of the individual . External nature was then the totality of the material environment . Then man , responding to intrinsic , independent motivations , as a strictly predetermined , autonomous product of ...
Page 83
... instincts at bay ; animal societies provide the necessary restraint for animal instincts . As Konrad Lorenz observes , the evolution of instinctive behaviour in the zoological system proves how pointless it is to speak of ' instinct ...
... instincts at bay ; animal societies provide the necessary restraint for animal instincts . As Konrad Lorenz observes , the evolution of instinctive behaviour in the zoological system proves how pointless it is to speak of ' instinct ...
Page 148
... instincts are not mutually independent . 103 They are motivated by specific activities which define and condition their interactions and their impact . They include tendencies motivated by thirst , hunger , aggressivity and procreation ...
... instincts are not mutually independent . 103 They are motivated by specific activities which define and condition their interactions and their impact . They include tendencies motivated by thirst , hunger , aggressivity and procreation ...
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 animal societies Année sociologique anthropoid aptitudes Australopithecus baboons basic become behaviour biological bipedalism cerebral cortex chimpanzees clan Claude Lévi-Strauss constitute created culture depends differentiation distinct division dominant male ecological emergence environment established Ethologists evolution evolutionary existence exogamy exploited fact foraging function gathering genetic habitat Hamadryas Baboons hierarchy hominids Homo erectus human societies hunters hunting independent individual influence initiation instincts intellectual involved Jocasta kinship labour laws less Lévi-Strauss living male and female man's Marcel Mauss marriage monkeys monosexual mother mutations mutual natural selection non-reproductive objects observed pattern permanent phenomenon physical and anatomical population predacity prey primate primitive societies prohibition of incest relations relationships reproduction restricted rhesus monkeys rituals sexes sexual significance skills social organization social structure species status sub-group subordinate survival symbolic tendency territory tool-making Trobriand Islands unit women young