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Human Origins

Contributions from Social Anthropology. Methodology & History in Anthropology

Format: Hardback
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Oxford, United Kingdom
Published: 1st Dec 2016
Dimensions: w 152mm h 229mm d 21mm
Weight: 658g
ISBN-10: 178533378X
ISBN-13: 9781785333781
Barcode No: 9781785333781
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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.

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"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