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Primeval kinship : how pair-bonding gave birth to human society / Bernard Chapais.
| Author/creator | Chapais, Bernard |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008. |
| Description | xv, 349 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The question of the origin of human society -- Primatology and the evolution of human behavior -- The uterine kinship legacy -- From biological to cultural kinship -- The incest avoidance legacy -- From interactional regularities to institutionalized rules -- Levi-Strauss and the exogamy configuration -- Exogamy out of the evolutionary vacuum -- The building blocks of exogamy -- The ancestral male kin group hypothesis -- The evolutionary history of pair-bonding -- Pair-bonding and the reinvention of kinship -- Biparentality and the transformation of siblingships -- Beyond the local group : the rise of the tribe -- From male philopatry to residential diversity -- Brothers, sisters and the founding principle of exogamy -- Filiation, descent, and ideology -- The primate origins of unilineal descent groups -- The evolution of human descent -- Conclusion: Human society as contingent. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-340) and index. |
| LCCN | 2007034108 |
| ISBN | 9780674027688 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 067402768X (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780674027824 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 0674027825 (hbk.) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | GN 487 .C43 2008 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |