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Human Origins : Contributions from Social Anthropology / ed. by Camilla Power, Morna Finnegan, Hilary Callan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Methodology & History in Anthropology ; 30Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (364 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781785333781
  • 9781785333798
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  • 306 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 FORTY YEARS ON: BIOSOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY REVISITED -- Chapter 2 RETHINKING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STUDIES OF ETHNOBIOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AND THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN CULTURAL COGNITION -- Chapter 3 TOWARDS A THEORY OF EVERYTHING -- Chapter 4 SEXUAL INSULT AND FEMALE MILITANCY -- Chapter 5 WHO SEES THE ELEPHANT? SEXUAL EGALITARIANISM IN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY’S ROOM -- Chapter 6 FROM METAPHOR TO SYMBOLS AND GRAMMAR: THE CUMULATIVE CULTURAL EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE -- Chapter 7 RECONSTRUCTING A SOURCE COSMOLOGY FOR AFRICAN HUNTER-GATHERERS -- Chapter 8 SOUNDS IN THE NIGHT: RITUAL BELLS, THERIANTHROPES AND ELAND RELATIONS AMONG THE HADZA -- Chapter 9 HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY, SAN SHAMANIC HEALING AND THE ‘COGNITIVE REVOLUTION’ -- Chapter 10 RAIN SERPENTS IN NORTHERN AUSTRALIA AND SOUTHERN AFRICA: A COMMON ANCESTRY? -- Chapter 11 BEDOUIN MATRILINEALITY REVISITED -- Chapter 12 ‘FROM LUCY TO LANGUAGE: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE SOCIAL BRAIN’ AN OPEN INVITATION FOR SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY TO JOIN THE EVOLUTIONARY DEBATE -- AFTERWORD -- INDEX
Summary: Human Origins brings together new thinking by social anthropologists and other scholars on the evolution of human culture and society. No other discipline has more relevant expertise to consider the emergence of humans as the symbolic species. Yet, social anthropologists have been conspicuously absent from debates about the origins of modern humans. These contributions explore why that is, and how social anthropology can shed light on early kinship and economic relations, gender politics, ritual, cosmology, ethnobiology, medicine, and the evolution of language.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 FORTY YEARS ON: BIOSOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY REVISITED -- Chapter 2 RETHINKING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STUDIES OF ETHNOBIOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AND THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN CULTURAL COGNITION -- Chapter 3 TOWARDS A THEORY OF EVERYTHING -- Chapter 4 SEXUAL INSULT AND FEMALE MILITANCY -- Chapter 5 WHO SEES THE ELEPHANT? SEXUAL EGALITARIANISM IN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY’S ROOM -- Chapter 6 FROM METAPHOR TO SYMBOLS AND GRAMMAR: THE CUMULATIVE CULTURAL EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE -- Chapter 7 RECONSTRUCTING A SOURCE COSMOLOGY FOR AFRICAN HUNTER-GATHERERS -- Chapter 8 SOUNDS IN THE NIGHT: RITUAL BELLS, THERIANTHROPES AND ELAND RELATIONS AMONG THE HADZA -- Chapter 9 HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY, SAN SHAMANIC HEALING AND THE ‘COGNITIVE REVOLUTION’ -- Chapter 10 RAIN SERPENTS IN NORTHERN AUSTRALIA AND SOUTHERN AFRICA: A COMMON ANCESTRY? -- Chapter 11 BEDOUIN MATRILINEALITY REVISITED -- Chapter 12 ‘FROM LUCY TO LANGUAGE: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE SOCIAL BRAIN’ AN OPEN INVITATION FOR SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY TO JOIN THE EVOLUTIONARY DEBATE -- AFTERWORD -- INDEX

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Human Origins brings together new thinking by social anthropologists and other scholars on the evolution of human culture and society. No other discipline has more relevant expertise to consider the emergence of humans as the symbolic species. Yet, social anthropologists have been conspicuously absent from debates about the origins of modern humans. These contributions explore why that is, and how social anthropology can shed light on early kinship and economic relations, gender politics, ritual, cosmology, ethnobiology, medicine, and the evolution of language.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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