Human Origins: Contributions from Social Anthropology by Camilla Power (English)

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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.

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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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

IntroductionCamilla Power, Morna Finnegan and Hilary CallanChapter 1. Forty Years On: Biosocial Anthropology RevisitedHilary CallanChapter 2. Rethinking the Relationship between Studies of Ethnobiological Knowledge and the Evolution of Human Cultural CognitionRoy EllenChapter 3. Toward a Theory of EverythingChris Knight and Jerome LewisChapter 4. Sexual Insult and Female MilitancyShirley G. ArdenerChapter 5. Who Sees the Elephant?  Sexual Egalitarianism in Social Anthropology's RoomMorna FinneganChapter 6. From Metaphor to Symbols and Grammar: The Cumulative Cultural Evolution of LanguageAndrew D. M. Smith and Stefan HoeflerChapter 7. Reconstructing a Source Cosmology for African Hunter-gatherersCamilla PowerChapter 8. Sounds in the Night: Ritual Bells, Therianthropes, and Eland Relations among the HadzaThea SkaanesChapter 9. Human Physiology, San Shamanic Healing and the 'Cognitive Revolution'Chris LowChapter 10. Rain Serpents in Northern Australia and Southern Africa: a Common Ancestry?Ian WattsChapter 11. Bedouin Matrilineality RevisitedSuzanne E. JosephChapter 12. 'From Lucy to Language: The Archaeology of the Social Brain' An Open Invitation for Social Anthropology to Join the Evolutionary DebateWendy JamesAfterwordAlan BarnardBibliographyIndex

Review

"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." • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)"…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." • Choice"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

Review Quote

"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

Details ISBN1785334263 Publisher Berghahn Books ISBN-10 1785334263 ISBN-13 9781785334269 Format Paperback Media Book Imprint Berghahn Books Subtitle Contributions from Social Anthropology Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 306 Illustrations 6 illustrations, 2 tables Language English Year 2016 Short Title Human Origins Series Number 30 AU Release Date 2016-12-01 NZ Release Date 2016-12-01 UK Release Date 2016-12-01 Author Hilary Callan Pages 364 Series Methodology & History in Anthropology Publication Date 2016-12-01 Edited by Hilary Callan Audience Undergraduate We've got this

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