内容

目次

Part 1 Humanity: concepts of humanity and animality; evolution of early hominids; human evolution - the last one million years; the origins and evolution of language; the social transmission of information in humans and non-human animals; tools; modes of subsistence - hunting and gathering to agriculture and pastoralism; the diet and nutrition of human populations; demographic expansion - causes and consequences; disease and the destruction of human populations. Part 2 Culture: culture and environment in evolutionary theory; symbolism - the foundations of human culture; artefacts and the meaning of things; technology; fundamentals of ethno-biological classification; spatial organization and the built environment; perceptions of time; literacy; magic, religion and the rationality of belief; myth and cosmology; ritual and performance the anthropology of art; music and dance; the politics of culture - ethnicity and nationalism. Part 3 Social life: sociality among humans and non-human animals; rules and prohibitions - the form and content of human kinship; socialization and personhood; social aspects of language use; understanding sex and gender; work, the division of labour and co-operation; exchange and reciprocity; process of law and dispute settlement; violence and warfare; political domination and cultural evolution; equality and inequality; the nation state, colonial expansion and the contemporary world order.