{"product_id":"early-human-kinship-isbn-9781405179010","title":"Early Human Kinship","description":"\u003ci\u003eEarly Human Kinship\u003c\/i\u003e brings together original studies from leading figures in the biological sciences, social anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics to provide a major breakthrough in the debate over human evolution and the nature of society.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eA major new collaboration between specialists across the range of the human sciences including evolutionary biology and psychology; social\/cultural anthropology; archaeology and linguistics\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides a ground-breaking set of original studies offering a new perspective on early human history\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDebates fundamental questions about early human society: Was there a connection between the beginnings of language and the beginnings of organized 'kinship and marriage'? How far did evolutionary selection favor gender and generation as principles for regulating social relations?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSponsored by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland in conjunction with the British Academy\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  List of Tables.  \u003cp\u003eList of Figures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eINTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy 'Kinship'? New Questions on an Old Topic (\u003ci\u003eWendy James\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Brief Overview of Human Evolution (\u003ci\u003eJohn A. J. Gowlett and Robin Dunbar\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I Where and When: The Archaeological Evidence for Early Social Life in Africa.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Kinship and Material Culture: Archaeological Implications of the Human Global Diaspora (\u003ci\u003eClive Gamble\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Deep Roots of Kin: Developing the Evolutionary Perspective from Prehistory (\u003ci\u003eJohn A. J. Gowlett\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II Women, Children, Men – and the Puzzles of Comparative Social Structure.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Early Human Kinship Was Matrilineal (\u003ci\u003eChris Knight\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Alternating Birth Classes: A Note from Eastern Africa (\u003ci\u003eWendy James\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Tetradic Theory and the Origin of Human Kinship Systems (\u003ci\u003eNicholas J. Allen\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 What Can Ethnography Tell Us about Human Social Evolution? (\u003ci\u003eRobert Layton\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART III Other Primates and the Biological Approach.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Kinship in Biological Perspective (\u003ci\u003eRobin Dunbar\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Importance of Kinship in Monkey Society (\u003ci\u003eAmanda H. Korstjens\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Meaning and Relevance of Kinship in Great Apes (\u003ci\u003eJulia Lehmann\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Grandmothering and Female Coalitions: A Basis for Matrilineal Priority? (\u003ci\u003eKit Opie and Camilla Power\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART IV Reconstructions: Evidence from Cultural Practice and Language.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 A Phylogenetic Approach to the History of Cultural Practices (\u003ci\u003eLaura Fortunato\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Reconstructing Ancient Kinship in Africa (\u003ci\u003eChristopher Ehret\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 The Co-evolution of Language and Kinship (\u003ci\u003eAlan Barnard\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEPILOGUE.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReaching across the Gaps (\u003ci\u003eHilary Callan\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendices to Chapter 12.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"This is an important and timely volume, which in its multiple approaches brings new questions to bear on a topic that is the bedrock of anthropology.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStanley Ulijaszek,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Oxford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"An international collection of leading figures in paleontology, linguistics, geography and anthropology consider the transition from the biological kinship of primates to social kinship of modern humans which also marks the transition to language and the social control of the environment.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eR.H. Barnes, University of Oxford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"For too long, studies of the cultural and the genetic aspects of kinship have proceeded in isolation from one another. This volume marks the beginning of what promises to be a fruitful conversation between evolutionary biology and social anthropology.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDaniel Nettle, Newcastle University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Early Human Kinship\u003c\/i\u003e brings together exciting new perspectives from a range of human sciences. Useful for teaching, it will also encourage further cross-disciplinary research into the origins of human kinship, and therefore of humanity itself.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobert Parkin, University of Oxford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This important book puts the study of kinship back in the center of deep history-exactly where nineteenth century anthropology first found it. Welcome back!\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThomas Trautmann, University of Michigan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In the middle of last century, Lévi-Strauss advanced that our ancestors came out of their animal state as the result of two “big bangs”. Symbolic thinking and language, he claimed, suddenly appeared, and humans were then able to leave off bedding their sisters or their daughters, and instead exchange them for other men’s daughters. Thus the incest taboo and male domination were sufficient to promote our ancestors from a state of nature to one of culture. Today the authors of Early Human Kinship show that these “big bangs” never happened and that the ancestors of modern humans shook off their original animal state through a series of transformations that began with the appearance of Homo erectus and the domestication of fire (500,000 BP). It was above all the development of our ancestors’ cognitive capacities that enabled them to imagine and gradually to put into practice various social forms of sexual intercourse and to decide that the children born of these unions belonged to a given group of adults considered to be their kin. Kinship relations have always formed systems, but they have never been the only founding principle of any society.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMaurice Godelier,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eÉcole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eNicholas J. Allen\u003c\/b\u003e is Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford. He has published on the Himalayas, kinship theory, the Durkheimian School and Indo-European Comparativism. His books include \u003ci\u003eCategories and Classifications\u003c\/i\u003e (2000) and \u003ci\u003eMarcel Mauss: A Centenary Tribute\u003c\/i\u003e (1998).  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHilary Callan\u003c\/b\u003e has been Director of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland since 2000. Her research and publications include work on biological and social anthropology, occupational cultures, and gender, including \u003ci\u003eEthology and Society\u003c\/i\u003e (1970)and \u003ci\u003eThe Incorporated Wife\u003c\/i\u003e (edited with Shirley Ardener, 1984).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWendy James\u003c\/b\u003e was until recently Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, and is now Emeritus Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. She has carried out ethnographic research in North East Africa, and her books include \u003ci\u003eWar and Survival in Sudan’s Frontierlands: Voices from the Blue Nile\u003c\/i\u003e (2007) and \u003ci\u003eThe Ceremonial\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnimal: A New Portrait of Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e (2003).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobin Dunbar\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, and specializes in primate behaviour. He is co-director of the British Academy’s Centenary Research Project ('From Lucy to Language: The Archaeology of the Social Brain'). He is the author or co-author of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Human Story\u003c\/i\u003e (2004) and \u003ci\u003eEvolutionary Psychology: A Beginner’s Guide\u003c\/i\u003e (2005).\u003c\/p\u003e  Questions of ‘kinship’ have always been at the centre of anthropology. Was there a connection between the beginnings of language and the beginnings of organized ‘kinship and marriage’? How far did evolutionary selection favour gender and generation as abstract principles for regulating social relations within and between ancient bands of our early ancestors? This book debates these and other fundamental questions about the emergence of human society.  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEarly Human Kinship\u003c\/i\u003e brings together original studies from leading figures in the biological sciences, social anthropology, archaeology and linguistics. The volume takes as its starting point the evolutionary link between enlarged brain capacity and the ability of human ancestors to support increasingly large population groups. It then moves beyond traditional Darwinian questions to ask how far early humans might have organized these groups according to rules about mating and social reproduction of a kind that we would recognize today.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSponsored by the Royal Anthropological Institute, in conjunction with the British Academy, \u003ci\u003eEarly Human Kinship\u003c\/i\u003e provides a major breakthrough in the debate over human evolution and the nature of society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989095465189,"sku":"NP9781405179010","price":143.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405179010.jpg?v=1761782775","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/early-human-kinship-isbn-9781405179010","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}