Essays on cultural transmission /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bloch, Maurice
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2005.
Series:Monographs on social anthropology ; v. 75.
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Table of Contents:
  • Where did anthropology go? : or the need for 'human nature'
  • Why trees, too, are good to think with : toward an anthropology of the meaning of life
  • Questions not to ask of Malagasy carvings
  • Commensality and poisoning
  • What is passed on from parents to children : a cross-cultural investigation
  • A well-disposed social anthropologist's problems with memes
  • Are religious beliefs counter-intuitive?
  • Ritual and deference
  • Kinship and evolved psychological dispositions : the mother's-brother controversy reconsidered.