Blood relations : menstruation and the origins of culture
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Blood relations : menstruation and the origins of culture
Yale University Press, 1995, c1991
- : pbk
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"First printed in paperback 1995"--T.p. verso
"Preface to the paperback edition"--P. [vi]-vii
Includes bibliography (p. [535]-565), and author and subject indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This original and ingenious book presents a new theory of the origins of human culture. Integrating perspectives of evolutionary biology and social anthropology within a Marxist framework, Chris Knight rejects the common assumption that human culture was a modified extension of primate behavior and argues instead that it was the product of an immense social, sexual, and political revolution initiated by women.
Table of Contents
- Anthropology and origins
- Levi-Strauss and "the mind"
- totemism as exchange
- the sex-strike
- origins theories in the 1980s
- the problem of the killer ape
- between blood, stone, and fire
- solidarity and cycles
- the revolution
- ice-age rhythms
- the hunter's moon
- the raw and the cooked
- the rule of men
- the dragon within.
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