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Primeval Kinship: How Pair-Bonding Gave Birth to Human Society
- ISBN-10:
- 0674046412
- ISBN-13:
- 9780674046412
- Pub. Date:
- 03/15/2010
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press
- ISBN-10:
- 0674046412
- ISBN-13:
- 9780674046412
- Pub. Date:
- 03/15/2010
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press
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Overview
Chapais 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. The pivotal event, the author proposes, was the evolution of sexual alliances. Pair-bonding transformed a social organization loosely based on kinship into one exhibiting the strong hold of kinship and affinity. The implication is that the gap between chimpanzee societies and pre-linguistic hominid societies is narrower than we might think.
Many books on kinship have been written by social anthropologists, but Primeval Kinship is the first book dedicated to the evolutionary origins of human kinship. And perhaps equally important, it is the first book to suggest that the study of kinship and social organization can provide a link between social and biological anthropology.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780674046412 |
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Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
Publication date: | 03/15/2010 |
Pages: | 368 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
- Preface
- A Forsaken Quest
- The Deep Structure of Human Societies
- The Phylogenetic Decomposition Principle
- Reconstructing the Exogamy Configuration
- Primatological Theories and Primate Legacies
- Appraising Primate Kinship
- The Domain of Uterine Kindred in Primates
- How Are Uterine Kin Recognized?
- The Origin of Group-wide Kinship Structures
- Beyond Consanguineal Kinship
- The “Genealogical Unity of Mankind”
- The Bilateral Character of Human Kinship
- Elements of a Primatological Theory of Incest Avoidance
- Humankind’s Primate Heritage
- The Anthropologists’ Treatment of the Primate Data
- The Westermarck Knot
- The Morality Problem
- Lessons from Comparative Anatomy
- Reciprocal Exogamy as a Deep Structuring Principle
- Reciprocal Exogamy as Archaic
- The Convergence beyond the Critiques
- Lévi-Strauss and the Primate Data
- Leslie White and the Primate Origins of Exogamy
- Elman Service and the Primitive Exogamous Band
- Robin Fox and the Initial Deconstruction of Exogamy
- Pinpointing the Distinctiveness of Exogamy
- Reconstructing Human Society: The Task Ahead
- A Once Irreducible System
- The Patrilocal Band Model
- Male Philopatry in Apes
- The Homology Hypothesis
- Updating the Ancestral Male Kin Group Hypothesis
- The Gorilla Alternative
- The “Invariant Core of the Family”
- Pair-Bonds as Parental Partnerships
- The Pitfall of the Modern Family Reference
- A Two-Step Evolutionary Sequence
- Monogamy as a Special Case of Polygyny
- The Evolutionary History of the Sexual Division of Labor
- The Fundamental Equation of the Exogamy Configuration
- Kinship in the Ancestral Male Kin Group
- Fatherhood
- The Institutionalized Denial of Paternity
- The Development of Agnatic Kinship Structures
- Chimpanzee Siblingships
- Fatherhood and the Evolution of Strong Brotherhoods
- Fatherhood and the Brother–Sister Bond
- The Added Effect of Shorter Interbirth Intervals
- Male Pacification as a Prerequisite for the Tribe
- Females as Peacemakers: The Consanguinity Route
- Females as Peacemakers: The Affinity Route
- The Initial Impetus
- The Prelinguistic Tribe
- Some Serious Discrepancies
- The Emergence of Residential Diversity
- Ancestral Patrilocality and Grandmothering
- The First Step: Outmarriage
- Affinal Brotherhoods and the Origin of Exogamy Rules
- From Siblings-in-Law to Cross-Cousins
- The “Atom of Kinship” Revisited
- The African Model of Unilineal Descent Groups
- The Chestnut within the Model
- Group Membership through Birth
- Kinship-Based Segmentation
- The Genealogical Boundaries of Exogamy
- The Unisexual Transmission of Status
- Primitive Corporateness
- A Multilevel Structure of Solidarity
- Female Kin Groups as Precultural Matriclans
- The Residential Basis of Proto–Descent Groups
- The Latent Patriclan
- Matrilineality as a Male Affair
- References
- Index
1. The Question of the Origin of Human Society
I. Primatologists As Evolutionary Historians
2. Primatology and the Evolution of Human Behavior
3. The Uterine Kinship Legacy
4. From Biological to Cultural Kinship
5. The Incest Avoidance Legacy
6. From Behavioral Regularities to Institutionalized Rules
II. The Exogamy Configuration Decomposed
7. Lévi-Strauss and the Deep Structure of Human Society
8. Human Society Out of the Evolutionary Vacuum
9. The Building Blocks of Exogamy
III. The Exogamy Configuration Reconstructed
10. The Ancestral Male Kin Group Hypothesis
11. The Evolutionary History of Pair-Bonding
12 Pair-Bonding and the Reinvention of Kinship
13. Biparentality and the Transformation of Siblingships
14. Beyond the Local Group: The Rise of the Tribe
15. From Male Philopatry to Residential Diversity
16. Brothers, Sisters, and the Founding Principle of Exogamy
IV. Unilineal Descent
17. Filiation, Descent, and Ideology
18. The Primate Origins of Unilineal Descent Groups
19. The Evolutionary History of Human Descent
20. Conclusion: Human Society as Contingent
What People are Saying About This
Primeval Kinship is a treasure chest of comparative research on human and primate social structure, organization, and behavior. This book will reignite and reinvigorate discussions of the evolution of primate and human society. It will be a model from which future social and physical anthropologists, primatologists, and social scientists can build.
Primeval Kinship is a treasure chest of comparative research on human and primate social structure, organization, and behavior. This book will reignite and reinvigorate discussions of the evolution of primate and human society. It will be a model from which future social and physical anthropologists, primatologists, and social scientists can build.
Robert Wald Sussman, Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis