Early Human Kinship

From Sex to Social Reproduction
Herausgegeben von Allen, Nicholas J.; Callan, Hilary; Dunbar, Robin; James, Wendy

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Produktbeschreibung

Sponsored by the Royal Anthropological Institute, in conjunction with the British Academy, Early Human Kinship brings together original studies from leading figures in the biological sciences, social anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics to provide a major breakthrough in the debate over human evolution and the nature of society.

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Early Human Kinship brings together original studies from leading figures in the biological sciences, social anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics to provide a major breakthrough in the debate over human evolution and the nature of society.

A major new collaboration between specialists across the range of the human sciences including evolutionary biology and psychology; social/cultural anthropology; archaeology and linguistics
Provides a ground-breaking set of original studies offering a new perspective on early human history
Debates fundamental questions about early human society: Was there a connection between the beginnings of language and the beginnings of organized kinship and marriage ? How far did evolutionary selection favor gender and generation as principles for regulating social relations?
Sponsored by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland in conjunction with the British Academy

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 169mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9781444338782
• ISBN-10: 1444338781
• Artikelnr.: 32567883

Autorenporträt

Nicholas J. Allen is Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford. He has published on the Himalayas, kinship theory, the Durkheimian School and Indo-European Comparativism. His books include Categories and Classifications (2000) and Marcel Mauss: A Centenary Tribute (1998). Hilary Callan has been Director of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland since 2000. Her research and publications include work on biological and social anthropology, occupational cultures, and gender, including Ethology and Society (1970)and The Incorporated Wife (edited with Shirley Ardener, 1984). Wendy James was until recently Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, and is now Emeritus Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. She has carried out ethnographic research in North East Africa, and her books include War and Survival in Sudan's Frontierlands: Voices from the Blue Nile (2007) and The Ceremonial Animal: A New Portrait of Anthropology (2003). Robin Dunbar is Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, and specializes in primate behaviour. He is co-director of the British Academy's Centenary Research Project ('From Lucy to Language: The Archaeology of the Social Brain'). He is the author or co-author of numerous books, including The Human Story (2004) and Evolutionary Psychology: A Beginner's Guide (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables List of Figures List of Illustrations Preface
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction and Background Part I:
Where and When: The Archaeological Evidence for Early Social Life in Africa
Part II: Women, Children, Men - and the Puzzles of Comparative Social
Structure Part III: Other Primates and the Biological Approach Part IV:
Reconstructions: Evidence from Cultural Practice and Language Epilogue
Appendices to Chapter 12 Bibliography Index