Human Origins
Subtitle: Contributions from Social Anthropology
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781785333781
Subjects: Human beings, origin; Ethnology, history
Description: 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.