Human origins : contributions from social 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 conspicuousl...
| Other Authors: | , , |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn,
[2017].
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| Series: | Methodology and history in anthropology ;
v. 30. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | vi, 356 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781785333781 178533378X 9781785334269 1785334263 |