COMP ENCY ANTHROPOLOGY

ISBN-13: 9780415164214 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 1168 str.

Opis

This companion provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary thinking in biological, social and cultural anthropology. In bringing these three fields together, it establishes their interconnections, and lays the foundations for an integrated perspective on the conditions of human life appropriate to the challenges of the future. In 35 chapters, a selection of the world's leading authorities present their own visions in their different fields and chart out new directions of inquiry.

Spis treści

Part 1 Humanity: concepts of humanity and animality; evolution of early hominids; human evolution - the last one million years; the origins and evolution of language; the social transmission of information in humans and non-human animals; tools; modes of subsistence - hunting and gathering to agriculture and pastoralism; the diet and nutrition of human populations; demographic expansion - causes and consequences; disease and the destruction of human populations. Part 2 Culture: culture and environment in evolutionary theory; symbolism - the foundations of human culture; artefacts and the meaning of things; technology; fundamentals of ethno-biological classification; spatial organization and the built environment; perceptions of time; literacy; magic, religion and the rationality of belief; myth and cosmology; ritual and performance the anthropology of art; music and dance; the politics of culture - ethnicity and nationalism. Part 3 Social life: sociality among humans and non-human animals; rules and prohibitions - the form and content of human kinship; socialization and personhood; social aspects of language use; understanding sex and gender; work, the division of labour and co-operation; exchange and reciprocity; process of law and dispute settlement; violence and warfare; political domination and cultural evolution; equality and inequality; the nation state, colonial expansion and the contemporary world order.

 

O autorze

Tim Ingold