Primeval Kinship - How Pair-Bonding Gave Birth to Human Society

Informationen zum Autor Bernard Chapais is Professor of Anthropology, University of Montréal. Klappentext Chapais shows that our knowledge about kinship and society in nonhuman primates supports! and informs! ideas proposed by Claude Levi-Strauss. He contends that only a few evolutionary steps were required to bridge the gap between the kinship structures of our closest relatives-chimpanzees and bonobos-and the human kinship configuration. Zusammenfassung Chapais shows that our knowledge about kinship and society in nonhuman primates supports, and informs, ideas proposed by Claude Lévi-Strauss. He contends that only a few evolutionary steps were required to bridge the gap between the kinship structures of our closest relatives—chimpanzees and bonobos—and the human kinship configuration.

Product details

• Authors: Bernard Chapais, Chapais Bernard
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2010
• EAN: 9780674046412
• ISBN: 978-0-674-04641-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Primatology, Social and cultural anthropology, Sociology & anthropology, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Zoology: primates (primatology)