Kinship and Human Evolution - Making Culture, Becoming Human

Kinship and Human Evolution offers an exciting new explanation of how Homo became sapiens or "cultured" beings capable of symbolic thought. This book argues that the key to understanding human evolution and culture lies in kinship-based exchange networks, which were part of an adaptive response to the harsh environment during the last ice age.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1 The Record of Human Evolution
Chapter 2 Connecting Niches by Kinship
Chapter 3 Kinship and Exchange
Chapter 4 From Kinship to Culture
Chapter 5 Local Strategies-The Mekeo of Papua New Guinea
Conclusion
Bibliography

About the author

Steen Bergendorff is professor emeritus at Roskilde University.

Product details

• Authors: Steen Bergendorff, Bergendorff Steen
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781498524193
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-2419-3
• No. of pages: 136
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Evolution / Evolutionary biology