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Record Nr.

UNISA996208655403316

Titolo

Early human kinship : from sex to social reproduction / / edited by Nicholas J. Allen [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Massachusetts : , : Blackwell Pub., , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

1-282-68465-5

9786612684654

1-4443-0271-X

1-4443-0272-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Disciplina

306.83

Soggetti

Prehistoric peoples

Kinship

Human evolution

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [270]-301) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 Wendy James; A Brief Overview of Human Evolution John A. J. Gowlett and Robin Dunbar; Part I Where and When The Archaeological Evidence for Early Social Life in Africa; 1 Kinship and Material Culture Archaeological Implications of the Human Global Diaspora Clive Gamble; 2 Deep Roots of Kin Developing the Evolutionary Perspective from Prehistory John A. J. Gowlett

Part II Women, Children, Men – and the Puzzles of Comparative Social Structure3 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 Importanc

Sommario/riassunto

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: W