Social Anthropology And Human Origins

Author : Alan Barnard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139500449

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The study of human origins is one of the most fascinating branches of anthropology. Yet it has rarely been considered by social or cultural anthropologists, who represent the largest subfield of the discipline. In this powerful study Alan Barnard aims to bridge this gap. Barnard argues that social anthropological theory has much to contribute to our understanding of human evolution, including changes in technology, subsistence and exchange, family and kinship, as well as to the study of language, art, ritual and belief. This book places social anthropology in the context of a widely-conceived constellation of anthropological sciences. It incorporates recent findings in many fields, including primate studies, archaeology, linguistics and human genetics. In clear, accessible style Barnard addresses the fundamental questions surrounding the evolution of human society and the prehistory of culture, suggesting a new direction for social anthropology that will open up debate across the discipline as a whole.

Author : Alan J. Barnard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Human beings
ISBN : 1139075144

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Social Anthropology and Human Origins by Alan J. Barnard Pdf

"The study of human origins is one of the most fascinating branches of anthropology. Yet it has rarely been considered by social or cultural anthropologists, who represent the largest subfield of the discipline. In this powerful study Alan Barnard aims to bridge this gap. Barnard argues that social anthropological theory has much to contribute to our understanding of human evolution, including changes in technology, subsistence and exchange, family and kinship, as well as to the study of language, art, ritual and belief. This book places social anthropology in the context of a widely-conceived constellation of anthropological sciences. It incorporates recent findings in many fields, including primate studies, archaeology, linguistics and human genetics. In clear, accessible style Barnard addresses the fundamental questions surrounding the evolution of human society and the prehistory of culture, suggesting a new direction for social anthropology that will open up debate across the discipline as a whole"--

Author : Camilla Power,Morna Finnegan,Hilary Callan
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785333798

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Human Origins by Camilla Power,Morna Finnegan,Hilary Callan Pdf

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.

Author : Alan Barnard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521765315

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Social Anthropology and Human Origins by Alan Barnard Pdf

The study of human origins is one of the most fascinating branches of anthropology. Yet it has rarely been considered by social or cultural anthropologists, who represent the largest subfield of the discipline. In this powerful study Alan Barnard aims to bridge this gap. Barnard argues that social anthropological theory has much to contribute to our understanding of human evolution, including changes in technology, subsistence and exchange, family and kinship, as well as to the study of language, art, ritual and belief. This book places social anthropology in the context of a widely-conceived constellation of anthropological sciences. It incorporates recent findings in many fields, including primate studies, archaeology, linguistics and human genetics. In clear, accessible style Barnard addresses the fundamental questions surrounding the evolution of human society and the prehistory of culture, suggesting a new direction for social anthropology that will open up debate across the discipline as a whole.

Author : Nicholas J. Allen,Hilary Callan,Robin Dunbar,Wendy James
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781444338782

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Early Human Kinship by Nicholas J. Allen,Hilary Callan,Robin Dunbar,Wendy James Pdf

Early Human Kinship brings together original studies from leading figures in the biological sciences, social anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics to provide a major breakthrough in the debate over human evolution and the nature of society. A major new collaboration between specialists across the range of the human sciences including evolutionary biology and psychology; social/cultural anthropology; archaeology and linguistics Provides a ground-breaking set of original studies offering a new perspective on early human history Debates fundamental questions about early human society: Was there a connection between the beginnings of language and the beginnings of organized 'kinship and marriage'? How far did evolutionary selection favor gender and generation as principles for regulating social relations? Sponsored by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland in conjunction with the British Academy

Author : Robert Louis Welsch,Luis Antonio Vivanco,Agustin Fuentes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2025
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : 019766699X

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Anthropology by Robert Louis Welsch,Luis Antonio Vivanco,Agustin Fuentes Pdf

"Humans are fascinating and complex beings. With our large brains, flexible diets, and ability to get around on two feet, evolutionary history has made us different from other primates and facilitated our adaptation to practically any environment on the planet. At the same time, we are more than our biology, and there is nothing we do that does not involve culture, which encompasses our capacities for symbolic communication, intensive social cooperation, intergenerational learning, and metaphysical thinking. These points raise some interesting questions: What is it about our humanity that distinguishes us from other species? What is culture and how does it shape our origins, prehistoric pasts, and present? How do we as humans construct meaningful social worlds? What are the reasons for human biological and cultural diversity? Such questions are at the core of the study of anthropology"--

Author : Pascal Boyer
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800642096

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Human Cultures through the Scientific Lens by Pascal Boyer Pdf

This volume brings together a collection of seven articles previously published by the author, with a new introduction reframing the articles in the context of past and present questions in anthropology, psychology and human evolution. It promotes the perspective of ‘integrated’ social science, in which social science questions are addressed in a deliberately eclectic manner, combining results and models from evolutionary biology, experimental psychology, economics, anthropology and history. It thus constitutes a welcome contribution to a gradually emerging approach to social science based on E. O. Wilson’s concept of ‘consilience’. Human Cultures through the Scientific Lens spans a wide range of topics, from an examination of ritual behaviour, integrating neuro-science, ethology and anthropology to explain why humans engage in ritual actions (both cultural and individual), to the motivation of conflicts between groups. As such, the collection gives readers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the applications of an evolutionary paradigm in the social sciences. This volume will be a useful resource for scholars and students in the social sciences (particularly psychology, anthropology, evolutionary biology and the political sciences), as well as a general readership interested in the social sciences.

Author : Tim Ingold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317198123

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Evolution and Social Life by Tim Ingold Pdf

Evolution is among the most central and most contested of ideas in the history of anthropology. This book charts the fortunes of the idea from the mid-nineteenth century to recent times. By comparing biological, historical, and anthropological approaches to the study of human culture and social life, it lays the foundation for their effective synthesis. Far ahead of its time when first published, the book anticipates debates at the forefront of contemporary thinking. Revisiting the work after almost thirty years, Tim Ingold offers a substantial new preface that describes how the book came to be written, how it was received and its bearing on later developments. Unique in scope and breadth of theoretical vision, Evolution and Social Life cuts across the boundaries of natural science and the humanities to provide a major contribution both to the history of anthropological and social thought, and to contemporary debate on the relationship between human nature, culture, and social life.

Author : Robert Louis Welsch,Luis Antonio Vivanco,Agustin Fuentes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2025
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : 0197666965

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Anthropology by Robert Louis Welsch,Luis Antonio Vivanco,Agustin Fuentes Pdf

"Humans are fascinating and complex beings. With our large brains, flexible diets, and ability to get around on two feet, evolutionary history has made us different from other primates and facilitated our adaptation to practically any environment on the planet. At the same time, we are more than our biology, and there is nothing we do that does not involve culture, which encompasses our capacities for symbolic communication, intensive social cooperation, intergenerational learning, and metaphysical thinking. These points raise some interesting questions: What is it about our humanity that distinguishes us from other species? What is culture and how does it shape our origins, prehistoric pasts, and present? How do we as humans construct meaningful social worlds? What are the reasons for human biological and cultural diversity? Such questions are at the core of the study of anthropology"--

Author : Davydd J. Greenwood,William A. Stini
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 1262 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037257008

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Nature, Culture, and Human History by Davydd J. Greenwood,William A. Stini Pdf

Author : Edward Burnett Tylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : OCLC:41560114

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Dictionary of Anthropology by Edward Burnett Tylor Pdf

Author : University of Chicago,University of Chicago. Dept. of Anthropology
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : UOM:39015033282990

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Human Origins by University of Chicago,University of Chicago. Dept. of Anthropology Pdf

Author : David Graeber,David Wengrow
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780374721107

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The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber,David Wengrow Pdf

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself. Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume. The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action. Includes Black-and-White Illustrations

Author : Raymond Corbey,Wil Roebroeks
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9053564640

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Studying Human Origins by Raymond Corbey,Wil Roebroeks Pdf

This history of human origin studies covers a wide range of disciplines. This important new study analyses a number of key episodes from palaeolithic archaeology, palaeoanthropology, primatology and evolutionary theory in terms of various ideas on how one should go about such reconstructions and what, if any, the uses of such historiographical exercises can be for current research in these disciplines. Their carefully argued point is that studying the history of palaeoanthropological thinking about the past can enhance the quality of current research on human origins. The main issues in the present volume are the uses of disciplinary history in terms of present-day research concerns, the relative weight of cultural and other 'external' contexts, and continuity and change in theoretical perspectives. The book's overall approach is an epistemological one. It does not, in other words, primarily address anthropological data as such, but our ways of handling such data in terms of our most fundamental, but usually quite implicit theoretical presuppositions.

Author : Alan Barnard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781108837958

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History and Theory in Anthropology by Alan Barnard Pdf

An updated and expanded edition of Barnard's classic overview of the history and theory of anthropology.