Human Origins

Contributions from Social Anthropology
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-426-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 30, 364 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 530 g

Reihe: Methodology & History in Anthropology

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Power, Camilla

Finnegan, Morna

Callan, Hilary

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Power, Camilla
Camilla Power is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of East London. Her research has focused on the evolutionary emergence of symbolic culture, language, art and religion.

Finnegan, Morna
Morna Finnegan is an independent researcher who has published on the sexual egalitarianism of Central African hunter-gatherers, with a particular focus on the relationship between ritual and political domains.

Callan, Hilary
Hilary Callan is Director Emerita of the Royal Anthropological Institute, having served as Director from 2000 to 2010. She has held various academic positions in anthropology and international education.

Hilary Callan is Director Emerita of the Royal Anthropological Institute, having served as Director from 2000 to 2010. She has held various academic positions in anthropology and international education.