Origins of Human Behavior and Culture – serie
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Hadza
Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania
Häftad, 2010
307 kr
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In "The Hadza", Frank Marlowe provides a quantitative ethnography of one of the last remaining societies of hunter-gatherers in the world. The Hadza, who inhabit an area of East Africa near the Serengeti and Olduvai Gorge, have long drawn the attention of anthropologists and archaeologists for …
Technology as Human Social Tradition
Cultural Transmission among Hunter-Gatherers
Häftad, 2014
307 kr
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Technology as Human Social Tradition outlines a novel approach to studying variability and cumulative change in human technology prominent research themes in both archaeology and anthropology. Peter Jordan argues that human material culture is best understood as an expression of social tradition. …
Friendship
Development, Ecology, and Evolution of a Relationship
Häftad, 2010
307 kr
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Friends - they are generous and cooperative with each other in ways that appear to defy standard evolutionary expectations, frequently sacrificing for one another without concern for past behaviors or future consequences. In this fascinating multidisciplinary study, Daniel J. Hruschka synthesizes …
Behavioral Ecology and the Transition to Agriculture
Av Douglas J. Kennett, Bruce Winterhalder
Inbunden, 2006
737 kr
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This innovative volume is the first collective effort by archaeologists and ethnographers to use concepts and models from human behavioral ecology to explore one of the most consequential transitions in human history: the origins of agriculture. Carefully balancing theory and detailed empirical …
Hadza
Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania
Inbunden, 2010
856 kr
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In "The Hadza", Frank Marlowe provides a quantitative ethnography of one of the last remaining societies of hunter-gatherers in the world. The Hadza, who inhabit an area of East Africa near the Serengeti and Olduvai Gorge, have long drawn the attention of anthropologists and archaeologists for …
Life Histories of the Dobe !Kung
Food, Fatness, and Well-being over the Life-span
Av Nancy Howell
Inbunden, 2010
1156 kr
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"Life Histories of the Dobe !Kung" re-examines an important anthropological data set for the Dobe !Kung, the well-known 'Bushmen' of the Kalahari Desert, collected by Nancy Howell and colleagues. Using life history analysis, Howell reinterprets this rich material to address the question of how …
Life Histories of the Dobe !Kung
Food, Fatness, and Well-being over the Life-span
Av Nancy Howell
Häftad, 2010
443 kr
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"Life Histories of the Dobe !Kung" re-examines an important anthropological data set for the Dobe !Kung, the well-known 'Bushmen' of the Kalahari Desert, collected by Nancy Howell and colleagues. Using life history analysis, Howell reinterprets this rich material to address the question of how …
Friendship
Development, Ecology, and Evolution of a Relationship
Inbunden, 2010
823 kr
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Friends - they are generous and cooperative with each other in ways that appear to defy standard evolutionary expectations, frequently sacrificing for one another without concern for past behaviors or future consequences. In this fascinating multidisciplinary study, Daniel J. Hruschka synthesizes …
Technology as Human Social Tradition
Cultural Transmission among Hunter-Gatherers
Inbunden, 2014
651 kr
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Technology as Human Social Tradition outlines a novel approach to studying variability and cumulative change in human technology prominent research themes in both archaeology and anthropology. Peter Jordan argues that human material culture is best understood as an expression of social tradition. …
Orderly Anarchy
Sociopolitical Evolution in Aboriginal California
Inbunden, 2015
608 kr
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Orderly Anarchy delivers a provocative and innovative reexamination of sociopolitical evolution among Native American groups in California, a region known for its wealth of prehistoric languages, populations, and cultural adaptations. Scholars have tended to emphasize the development of social …
Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution
Inbunden, 2009
801 kr
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This volume offers an integrative approach to the application of evolutionary theory in studies of cultural transmission and social evolution and reveals the enormous range of ways in which Darwinian ideas can lead to productive empirical research, the touchstone of any worthwhile theoretical …
