Primeval kinship : how pair-bonding gave birth to human society / Bernard Chapais.
Primeval kinship : how pair-bonding gave birth to human society / Bernard Chapais.
Primeval kinship : how pair-bonding gave birth to human society / Bernard Chapais.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
Date
2008.
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N306.83/8
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English
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xv, 349 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
The question of the origin of human society -- Primatology and the evolution of human behavior -- The uterine kinship legacy -- From biological to cultural kinship -- The incest avoidance legacy -- From interactional regularities to institutionalized rules -- Levi-Strauss and the exogamy configurati...
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
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Massachusetts
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2008.
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"At some point in the course of evolution - from a primeval social organization of early hominids - all human societies, past and present, would emerge. In this account of the dawn of human society, Bernard Chapais shows that our knowledge about kinship and society in nonhuman primates supports, and informs, ideas first put forward by the distingui...
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Primeval kinship : how pair-bonding gave birth to human society / Bernard Chapais.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-340) and index.
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N306.83/8
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74VMQ4GLydgM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMQ4GLydgM
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067402768X (alk. paper)
9780674027688 (alk. paper)
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306.83
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991000592899702626
