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A Talent for Friendship: Rediscovery of a Remarkable Trait
Professor John Edward Terrell
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Description for A Talent for Friendship: Rediscovery of a Remarkable Trait
Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, With illustrations. BIC Classification: JMH; JMM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 158 x 26. Weight in Grams: 598.
This book frames our biological and psychological capacity to make friends as an evolved ability, comparing friendship to other evolved traits of human beings such as walking upright on two legs, having opposable thumbs and a prominent chin, and possessing the capacity for speech and complex abstract reasoning. Professor John Terrell investigates how the human brain has evolved to perform two functions essential to friendship that, at first glance, appear to be at odds with one another: remaking the outside world to suit our collective needs, and escaping into our own inner thoughts and imagining how things might and ought ... Read more
This book frames our biological and psychological capacity to make friends as an evolved ability, comparing friendship to other evolved traits of human beings such as walking upright on two legs, having opposable thumbs and a prominent chin, and possessing the capacity for speech and complex abstract reasoning. Professor John Terrell investigates how the human brain has evolved to perform two functions essential to friendship that, at first glance, appear to be at odds with one another: remaking the outside world to suit our collective needs, and escaping into our own inner thoughts and imagining how things might and ought ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
612g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199386451
SKU
V9780199386451
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About Professor John Edward Terrell
John Edward Terrell, Regenstein Curator of Pacific Anthropology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Reviews for A Talent for Friendship: Rediscovery of a Remarkable Trait
Is friendship a transaction designed to smooth over our naturally brutish human nature? Or is it intrinsic to our being? Terrell, a leading anthropologist of Oceania and author of the seminal Prehistory in the Pacific Islands, offers a more complex answer... As a theory of friendship, Terrell's work is elegant.
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