Human Origins

Human OriginsHuman Origins brings together new thinking by social anthropologists and other scholars on the evolution of human culture and society. No other discipline has more relevant expertise to consider the emergence of humans as the symbolic species. Yet, social anthropologists have been conspicuously absent from debates about the origins of modern humans. These contributions explore why that is, and how social anthropology can shed light on early kinship

the Chinese practice anticipates modern and Western theories of interpretation

the man of her dreams

and mass media from the past one hundred years

including historical analyses of anti-racist

and argues that it offers a model for a theory of reading that does not discount the letter as inessential

those who are terminally ill

and the arguments against its use

Set in the colony of British Guiana

” For his wit and wordplay alone

communal and organizational contexts

The book navigates the work of thinkers who have addressed such metaphysical concerns

It also highlights