Human origins : contributions from social anthropology
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Human origins : contributions from social anthropology
(Methodology and history in anthropology, v. 30)
Berghahn, 2017
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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 conspicuously absent from debates about the origins of modern humans. These contributions explore why that is, and how social anthropology can shed light on early kinship and economic relations, gender politics, ritual, cosmology, ethnobiology, medicine, and the evolution of language.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Camilla Power, Morna Finnegan and Hilary Callan
Chapter 1. Forty Years On: Biosocial Anthropology Revisited
Hilary Callan
Chapter 2. Rethinking the Relationship between Studies of Ethnobiological Knowledge and the Evolution of Human Cultural Cognition
Roy Ellen
Chapter 3. Toward a Theory of Everything
Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis
Chapter 4. Sexual Insult and Female Militancy
Shirley G. Ardener
Chapter 5. Who Sees the Elephant? Sexual Egalitarianism in Social Anthropology's Room
Morna Finnegan
Chapter 6. From Metaphor to Symbols and Grammar: The Cumulative Cultural Evolution of Language
Andrew D. M. Smith and Stefan Hoefler
Chapter 7. Reconstructing a Source Cosmology for African Hunter-gatherers
Camilla Power
Chapter 8. Sounds in the Night: Ritual Bells, Therianthropes, and Eland Relations among the Hadza
Thea Skaanes
Chapter 9. Human Physiology, San Shamanic Healing and the 'Cognitive Revolution'
Chris Low
Chapter 10. Rain Serpents in Northern Australia and Southern Africa: a Common Ancestry?
Ian Watts
Chapter 11. Bedouin Matrilineality Revisited
Suzanne E. Joseph
Chapter 12. 'From Lucy to Language: The Archaeology of the Social Brain' An Open Invitation for Social Anthropology to Join the Evolutionary Debate
Wendy James
Afterword
Alan Barnard
Bibliography
Index
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