The Evolution of Culture

A Historical and Scientific Overview
Herausgeber: Dunbar, Robin; Power, Camilla; Knight, Chris

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This new series presents innovative titles pertaining to human origins, evolution, and behavior from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Subject areas include but are not limited to biological and physical anthropology, prehistoric archaeology, evolutionary psychology, behavioral ecology, and evolutionary biology. The series volumes will be of interest primarily to students and scholars in these fields.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780813527314
• ISBN-10: 0813527317
• Artikelnr.: 21046459

Autorenporträt

CAMILLA POWER is a research student at University College, London. 

Inhaltsangabe

The contributors
Preface
1. An evolutionary approach to human culture
Part I. The Evolution of Society
2. The evolution of social organization
3. Symbolism as reference and symbolism as culture
4. Modern hunter-gatherers and early symbolic culture
Part II. The Evolution of Art and Religion
5. Sexual selection for cultural displays
6. 'Beauty magic': the origins of art
7. The origin of symbolic culture
8. Symbolism and the supernatural
Part III. The Evolution of Language
9. The evolution of language and languages
10. Culture, honesty and the freerider problem
11. Language variation and the volution of societies
12. Sex and language as pretend-play
Further reading
Author index
Subject index