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Human origins : contributions from social anthropology /

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 conspicuousl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Power, Camilla
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, [2017]
Colección:Methodology & history in anthropology ; volume 30
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Forty years on : Biosocial anthropology revisited / Hilary Callan
  • Rethinking the relationship between studies of ethnobiological knowledge and the evolution of human cultural cognition / Roy Ellen
  • Towards a theory of everything / Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis
  • Sexual insult and female militancy / Shirley G. Ardener
  • Who sees the elephant? Sexual egalitarianism in social anthropology's room / Morna Finnegan
  • From metaphor to symbols and grammar : the cumulative cultural evolution of language / Andrew D. M. Smith and Stefan Hoefler
  • Reconstructing a source cosmology for African hunter-gatherers / Camilla Power
  • Sounds in the night : ritual bells, therianthropes and eland relations among the Hadza / Thea Skaanes
  • Human physiology, San Shamanic healing and the 'cognitive revolution' / Chris Low
  • Rain serpents in Northern Australia and Southern Africa : a common ancestry? / Ian Watts
  • Bedouin matrilineality revisited / Suzanne E. Joseph
  • 'From Lucy to language: the archaeology of the social brain' : an open invitation for social anthropology to join the evolutionary debate / Wendy James.