Allen / Callan / Dunbar Early Human Kinship

From Sex to Social Reproduction
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0272-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten, E-Book

Early Human Kinship brings together original studies fromleading figures in the biological sciences, social anthropology,archaeology, and linguistics to provide a major breakthrough in thedebate over human evolution and the nature of society.
* A major new collaboration between specialists across the rangeof the human sciences including evolutionary biology andpsychology; social/cultural anthropology; archaeology andlinguistics
* Provides a ground-breaking set of original studies offering anew perspective on early human history
* Debates fundamental questions about early human society: Wasthere a connection between the beginnings of language and thebeginnings of organized 'kinship and marriage'? How far didevolutionary selection favor gender and generation as principlesfor regulating social relations?
* Sponsored by the Royal Anthropological Institute of GreatBritain and Ireland in conjunction with the British Academy

Autoren/Hrsg.

Allen, Nicholas J.

Callan, Hilary

Dunbar, Robin

James, Wendy

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables.
List of Figures.
List of Illustrations.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Notes on Contributors.
INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND.
Why 'Kinship'? New Questions on an Old Topic (WendyJames).
A Brief Overview of Human Evolution (John A. J. Gowlett andRobin Dunbar).
PART I Where and When: The Archaeological Evidence for EarlySocial Life in Africa.
1 Kinship and Material Culture: Archaeological Implications ofthe Human Global Diaspora (Clive Gamble).
2 Deep Roots of Kin: Developing the Evolutionary Perspectivefrom Prehistory (John A. J. Gowlett).
PART II Women, Children, Men - and the Puzzles ofComparative Social Structure.
3 Early Human Kinship Was Matrilineal (Chris Knight).
4 Alternating Birth Classes: A Note from Eastern Africa(Wendy James).
5 Tetradic Theory and the Origin of Human Kinship Systems(Nicholas J. Allen).
6 What Can Ethnography Tell Us about Human Social Evolution?(Robert Layton).
PART III Other Primates and the Biological Approach.
7 Kinship in Biological Perspective (Robin Dunbar).
8 The Importance of Kinship in Monkey Society (Amanda H.Korstjens).
9 Meaning and Relevance of Kinship in Great Apes (JuliaLehmann).
10 Grandmothering and Female Coalitions: A Basis for MatrilinealPriority? (Kit Opie and Camilla Power).
PART IV Reconstructions: Evidence from Cultural Practice andLanguage.
11 A Phylogenetic Approach to the History of Cultural Practices(Laura Fortunato).
12 Reconstructing Ancient Kinship in Africa (ChristopherEhret).
13 The Co-evolution of Language and Kinship (AlanBarnard).
EPILOGUE.
Reaching across the Gaps (Hilary Callan).
Appendices to Chapter 12.
Bibliography.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Nicholas J. Allen is Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College,University of Oxford. He has published on the Himalayas, kinshiptheory, the Durkheimian School and Indo-European Comparativism. Hisbooks include Categories and Classifications (2000) andMarcel Mauss: A Centenary Tribute (1998).
Hilary Callan has been Director of the RoyalAnthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland since 2000.Her research and publications include work on biological and socialanthropology, occupational cultures, and gender, includingEthology and Society (1970)and The Incorporated Wife(edited with Shirley Ardener, 1984).
Wendy James was until recently Professor of SocialAnthropology at the University of Oxford, and is now EmeritusFellow of St Cross College, Oxford. She has carried outethnographic research in North East Africa, and her books includeWar and Survival in Sudan's Frontierlands: Voices from the BlueNile (2007) and The Ceremonial Animal: A New Portraitof Anthropology (2003).
Robin Dunbar is Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology,University of Oxford, and specializes in primate behaviour. He isco-director of the British Academy's Centenary Research Project('From Lucy to Language: The Archaeology of the Social Brain'). Heis the author or co-author of numerous books, including TheHuman Story (2004) and Evolutionary Psychology: A Beginner'sGuide (2005).