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Hardback. Social anthropologists have been conspicuously absent from debates about the origins of modern humans. Human Origins explores 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. Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology. Num Pages: 362 pages, 6 illustrations, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JHMP; PSXM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 642.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Human Origins: Contributions from Social Anthropology
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Methodology & History in Anthropology
Condition
New
Weight
642g
Number of Pages
364
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785333781
SKU
V9781785333781
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About Hardback
Camilla Power is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of East London. Her research has focused on the evolutionary emergence of symbolic culture, language, art and religion. Morna Finnegan is an independent researcher who has published on the sexual egalitarianism of Central African hunter-gatherers, with a particular focus on the relationship between ritual and political domains. Hilary Callan is ... Read more
Reviews for 20170119
This work provides an important link between social anthropology and evolutionary anthropology, developing a cross-disciplinary approach to understanding human origins.
Dimitri Bondarenko, The Russian Academy of Sciences
Dimitri Bondarenko, The Russian Academy of Sciences