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Man the Hunter

Man the Hunter

Man the Hunter is a collection of papers presented at a symposium on research done among the hunting and gathering peoples of the world. Ethnographic studies increasingly contribute substantial amounts of new data on hunter-gatherers and are rapidly changing our concept of Man the Hunter. Social anthropologists generally have been reappraising the basic concepts of descent fi liation residence and group structure. This book presents new data on hunters and clarifi es a series of conceptual issues among social anthropologists as a necessary background to broader discussions with archaeologists biologists and students of human evolution.

GBP 140.00
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Hunter-Gatherer Archaeobotany Perspectives from the Northern Temperate Zone

Hunter-Gatherer Archaeobotany Perspectives from the Northern Temperate Zone

Hunter-Gatherer Archaeobotany shows how archaeobotanical investigations can broaden our understanding of the much wider range of plants that have been of use to people in the recent and more distant past. The book compromises sixteen papers covering aspects of the archaeobotany of wild plants ranging across the northern hemisphere from Japan across America Europe and into the Near East. Sites examined span the Upper Palaeolithic to the recent past and demonstrate how such studies can extend our understanding of human interaction with plants throughout our history. | Hunter-Gatherer Archaeobotany Perspectives from the Northern Temperate Zone

GBP 175.00
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Hunters and Gatherers (Vol I) Vol I: History Evolution and Social Change

Hunters and Gatherers (Vol I) Vol I: History Evolution and Social Change

All that is central to the dynamic process in human society is evident in the study of hunter-gatherers - peoples whose subsistence way of life reflects the original form of human adaptation. This is the thesis of these wide-ranging volumes in which internationally leading scholars consider hunter-gatherer peoples in Africa Asia Australia and North America and reflect theoretically on the hunter-gatherer condition. Volume 1: Hunters and Gatherers - History Evolution and Social ChangeVolume II: Hunters and Gatherers - Property Power and Ideology | Hunters and Gatherers (Vol I) Vol I: History Evolution and Social Change

GBP 130.00
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The Evolution of Religion and Morality Volume II

The Evolution of Religion and Morality Volume II

This volume draws on a unique dataset to answer pressing questions about human religiosity. Building upon the first volume in this series it presents results from the second phase of the Evolution of Religion and Morality (ERM) project. The second volume investigates key questions in the evolutionary and cognitive sciences of religion and highlights cultural variability and context specificity of diverse religious systems. Chapters draw on a dataset comprising 2 228 participants from 15 ethnographically diverse societies that stretch from Africa and India through Oceania to South America and include hunter-gatherers pastoralists horticulturalists subsistence farmers and wage laborers. Four chapters using the full dataset answer the following questions: What are the general predictors of commitment to supernatural agents? Is there a gender gap in religiosity? Does belief in punitive gods facilitates cooperation? Are supernatural agents implicitly associated with moral concerns? Chapters from individual field sites further explore the distinction between moralizing and local gods the potentially disruptive role of belief in local gods on cooperation with anonymous co-religionists and the relationship between belief in moralizing gods cooperation and differential access to material resources. Above these empirical studies the book also includes an informed discussion with specialists on the challenges of running such a large cross-cultural project and gives concrete recommendations for future projects. The Evolution of Religion and Morality: Volume II will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of religious studies human evolutionary biology psychology anthropology the cultural evolution of religion and the sociology of religion. This book was originally published as a special issue of Religion Brain & Behavior. | The Evolution of Religion and Morality Volume II

GBP 130.00
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Therapeutic Culture Triumph and Defeat

Therapeutic Culture Triumph and Defeat

For nearly half a century social scientists have made claims that there is a therapeutic ethos with extensive influence upon numerous aspects of American society. In Therapeutic Culture twelve authors address the implications of this ethos and its effects on a wide range of social institutions extending from the family to schools and operating in religious behavior and within the legal system. Has there been as the sociological theorist Philip Rieff argued in 1966 a triumph of the therapeutic? If so in what kinds of institutions has it been most pervasive? At the same time what aspects of modern culture has it replaced or defeated? Therapeutic Culture addresses these questions and raises others. Part 1 of this volume examines the emergence of the idea of authenticity as it defines the manipulation of emotions and behavior both in the United States and Great Britain. Contributors include Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn Frank Furedi Jonathan B. Imber and Alan Woolfolk. Part 2 illustrates specific cases of the effects of therapeutic culture within institutions including courts schools religious communities and the virtual community of the Internet. Contributors include James L. Nolan Jr. John Steadman Rice Felicia Wu Song and James Tucker. Part 3 extends the analyses of specific social institutions to the broader consequences that have resulted as a therapeutic ethos has taken root in contemporary life. Contributors include Digby Anderson Ellen Herman and James Davison Hunter. Part 4 is devoted to a previously unpublished essay by Philip Rieff whose significant influence can be seen in many of the contributions. Rieff revisits the highly controversial confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas in 1991 and offers ample evidence of the therapeutic uses of politics as well as the political manipulations available within a therapeutic culture to provide a fitting conclusion. This volume establishes a benchmark for further theoretical reflection and empirical research on the nature of therapeutic culture. It will be of interest to sociologists psychologists political scientists and cultural studies specialists. | Therapeutic Culture Triumph and Defeat

GBP 130.00
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