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Integrating perspectives of evolutionary biology and social anthropology within a Marxist framework, the author rejects the assumption that human culture is an extension of primate behaviour and argues that it is the product of a social, sexual and political revolution spearheaded by women.

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Anthropology and origins; Levi-Strauss and "the mind"; totemism as exchange; the sex-strike; origins theories in the 1980s; the problem of the killer ape; between blood, stone, and fire; solidarity and cycles; the revolution; ice-age rhythms; the hunter's moon; the raw and the cooked; the rule of men; the dragon within.

Blood Relations Menstruation and the Origins of Culture

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      Publisher: Yale University Press
      Publication Date: 4/3/1995 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780300063080, 978-0300063080
      ISBN10: 0300063083
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      Anthropology Feminism and feminist theory Society and culture: general

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Integrating perspectives of evolutionary biology and social anthropology within a Marxist framework, the author rejects the assumption that human culture is an extension of primate behaviour and argues that it is the product of a social, sexual and political revolution spearheaded by women.

      Table of Contents
      Anthropology and origins; Levi-Strauss and "the mind"; totemism as exchange; the sex-strike; origins theories in the 1980s; the problem of the killer ape; between blood, stone, and fire; solidarity and cycles; the revolution; ice-age rhythms; the hunter's moon; the raw and the cooked; the rule of men; the dragon within.

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