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Primeval kinship : how pair-bonding gave birth to human society /
"In this book Kenneth Abraham explores the development and interdependency of the tort liability regime and the insurance system in the United States during the twentieth century and beyond, including the events of September 11, 2001"--Jacket.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The question of the origin of human society
- Primatology and the evolution of human behavior
- The uterine kinship legacy
- From biological to cultural kinship
- The incest avoidance legacy
- From interactional regularities to institutionalized rules
- Levi-Strauss and the exogamy configuration
- Exogamy out of the evolutionary vacuum
- The building blocks of exogamy
- The ancestral male kin group hypothesis
- The evolutionary history of pair-bonding
- Pair-bonding and the reinvention of kinship
- Biparentality and the transformation of siblingships
- Beyond the local group : the rise of the tribe
- From male philopatry to residential diversity
- Brothers, sisters and the founding principle of exogamy
- Filiation, descent, and ideology
- The primate origins of unilineal descent groups
- The evolution of human descent
- Conclusion: Human society as contingent.