{"product_id":"human-origins-contributions-from-social-anthropology-9781785333781","title":"Human Origins: Contributions from Social","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHuman Origins\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“As a biological anthropologist, I welcomed the opportunity to read this book, and found it to be thoughtful and relevant to my work and interests. I will certainly encourage my colleagues to read it.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“…makes a substantial contribution to what Alan Barnard in his afterword refers to as ‘a new configuration of anthropological ideas,’ a ‘larger’ and more comprehensive anthropology. The volume's two major goals are to reengage social anthropology with research on human origins and, in so doing, to apply insights from sociocultural studies to evolutionary interpretations of symbolic culture, sociality, and cultural variation.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Choice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This work provides an important link between social anthropology and evolutionary anthropology, developing a cross-disciplinary approach to understanding human origins.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Dimitri Bondarenko\u003c\/strong\u003e, The Russian Academy of Sciences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCamilla Power, Morna Finnegan and Hilary Callan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Forty Years On: Biosocial Anthropology Revisited\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHilary Callan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Rethinking the Relationship between Studies of Ethnobiological Knowledge and the Evolution of Human Cultural Cognition\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRoy Ellen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Toward a Theory of Everything\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eChris Knight and Jerome Lewis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Sexual Insult and Female Militancy\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eShirley G. Ardener\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Who Sees the Elephant?  Sexual Egalitarianism in Social Anthropology's Room\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMorna Finnegan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e From Metaphor to Symbols and Grammar: The Cumulative Cultural Evolution of Language\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAndrew D. M. Smith and Stefan Hoefler\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Reconstructing a Source Cosmology for African Hunter-gatherers\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCamilla Power\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Sounds in the Night: Ritual Bells, Therianthropes, and Eland Relations among the Hadza\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eThea Skaanes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Human Physiology, San Shamanic Healing and the ‘Cognitive Revolution’\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eChris Low\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e Rain Serpents in Northern Australia and Southern Africa: a Common Ancestry?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eIan Watts\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e Bedouin Matrilineality Revisited\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSuzanne E. Joseph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e ‘From Lucy to Language: The Archaeology of the Social Brain’ An Open Invitation for Social Anthropology to Join the Evolutionary Debate\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eWendy James\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eAfterword\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAlan Barnard\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042390868311,"sku":"9781785333781","price":96.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781785333781.jpg?v=1750954016","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/human-origins-contributions-from-social-anthropology-9781785333781","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}