Primeval kinship
Subtitle: how pair-bonding gave birth to human society
By: Bernard Chapais.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780674027688
Subjects: Kinship; Human evolution
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-340) and index.
Table of contents: title: The question of the origin of human society; title: Primatology and the evolution of human behavior; title: The uterine kinship legacy; title: From biological to cultural kinship; title: The incest avoidance legacy; title: From interactional regularities to institutionalized rules; title: Levi-Strauss and the exogamy configuration; title: Exogamy out of the evolutionary vacuum; title: The building blocks of exogamy; title: The ancestral male kin group hypothesis; title: The evolutionary history of pair-bonding; title: Pair-bonding and the reinvention of kinship; title: Biparentality and the transformation of siblingships; title: Beyond the local group : the rise of the tribe; title: From male philopatry to residential diversity; title: Brothers, sisters and the founding principle of exogamy; title: Filiation, descent, and ideology; title: The primate origins of unilineal descent groups; title: The evolution of human descent; title: Conclusion: Human society as contingent.