Our Kind
Subtitle: Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going
By: Marvin Harris.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York (New York), USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 547
Subjects: Anthropology; Human evolution; Social evolution
Notes: Bibliography: p. 511-536.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: In the beginning; title: Birth of a Chimera; title: Rise and fall of Dawson's dawn man; title: Lucy in the sky with diamonds; title: Tree of life; title: Enigma of the little handy man; title: Dawn of technology; title: Tools for what?; title: Meat; title: African genesis revisited; title: Knapper, butcher, scavenger, hunter; title: Enigma of H. Erectus; title: Heat, hair, sweat, and marathons; title: Brain begins to think; title: Rudimentary cultures; title: Linguistic takeoff; title: Primitive languages?; title: Ape-signs; title: Triumph of sound; title: On being Neanderthal; title: Neanderthal's fate and the origin of our kind; title: Culture overshadowing; title: Ancestors; title: How old are the races?; title: How our skins got their color; title: Why Africa lags; title: Do the races differ in intelligence?; title: Different kind of selection; title: To breathe; title: To drink; title: To eat; title: Why we eat too much; title: Why we feast; title: Why we get fat; title: Innate tastes; title: Acquired tastes; title: One for the genes; title: Sexual pleasure; title: Carnal ignorance; title: And now for something completely different; title: Why women have perennially enlarged breasts; title: Giving and taking; title: How many mates?; title: Genes against incest?; title: Myth of the great taboo; title: Myth of the procreative imperative; title: How many children?; title: Reproductive failure; title: Need to be loved; title: Why homosexuality?; title: Male with male; title: Female with female; title: Sperm versus egg?; title: Stole pleasures; title: Are men more aggressive than women?; title: Of tomboy girls and penis-at-twelve boys; title: Mind, math, and the senses; title: Sex, hunting and deadly force; title: Female warriors?; title: War and sexism; title: Why war?; title: Meat, nuts and cannibals; title: Dissertation on fatty meat; title: Game wars?; title: Hungry Papuans; title: Where women rule the roost; title: Women up, women down; title: Hoes, plows, and computers; title: Why do women live longer than men?; title: Hidden cost of machismo; title: Was there life before chiefs?; title: How to be a headman; title: Coping with freeloaders; title: From headman to big man; title: Birth of the great providers; title: Why we crave prestige; title: Why we consume conspicuously; title: Why yuppies?; title: From big man to chief; title: Power, was it seized or given?; title: Threshold of the state; title: First states; title: Why we became religious; title: Evolution of the spirit world; title: Basic animistic rituals; title: Divine exchanges; title: meat offerings; title: Human sacrifice; title: Gods who would not eat people; title: Gods who ate people; title: Nonkilling religions; title: Origin of nonkilling religions; title: How the nonkilling religions spread; title: Chinese puzzle; title: Future of belief and disbelief; title: Did history repeat itself?; title: How the second Earth began; title: Evolution of thew second Earth; title: Pharaohs of the Andes; title: Why the first Earth conquered the second; title: Cultural discontents and the knowing mind; title: Will our kind survive?