ISBN:
9780674027824
,
0674027825
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xv, 349 p)
,
ill
,
25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Primeval Kinship : How Pair-Bonding Gave Birth to Human Society
DDC:
306.83
Keywords:
Human evolution
;
Kinship
Description / Table of Contents:
""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1 The Question of the Origin of Human Society""; ""I PRIMATOLOGISTS AS EVOLUTIONARY HISTORIANS""; ""2 Primatology and the Evolution of Human Behavior""; ""3 The Uterine Kinship Legacy""; ""4 From Biological to Cultural Kinship""; ""5 The Incest Avoidance Legacy""; ""6 From Behavioral Regularities to Institutionalized Rules""; ""II THE EXOGAMY CONFIGURATION DECOMPOSED""; ""7 Lévi-Strauss and the Deep Structure of Human Society""; ""8 Human Society Out of the Evolutionary Vacuum""; ""9 The Building Blocks of Exogamy""
Description / Table of Contents:
""III THE EXOGAMY CONFIGURATION RECONSTRUCTED""""10 The Ancestral Male Kin Group Hypothesis""; ""11 The Evolutionary History of Pair-Bonding""; ""12 Pair-Bonding and the Reinvention of Kinship""; ""13 Biparentality and the Transformationof Siblingships""; ""14 Beyond the Local Group: The Rise of the Tribe""; ""15 From Male Philopatry to Residential Diversity""; ""16 Brothers, Sisters, and the Founding Principle of Exogamy""; ""IV UNILINEAL DESCENT""; ""17 Filiation, Descent, and Ideology""; ""18 The Primate Origins of Unilineal Descent Groups""
Description / Table of Contents:
""19 The Evolutionary History of Human Descent""""20 Conclusion: Human Society as Contingent""; ""References""; ""Index""
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-340) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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