Primeval Kinship

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ISBN: 9780674046412 | 0674046412
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Copyright: 3/15/2010

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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. Book jacket.

Preface	p. xi
The Question of the Origin of Human Society	p. 1
A Forsaken Quest	p. 6
The Deep Structure of Human Societies	p. 10
Primatologists as Evolutionary Historians
Primatology and the Evolution of Human Behavior	p. 17
The Phylogenetic Decomposition Principle	p. 18
Reconstructing the Exogamy Configuration	p. 25
The Uterine Kinship Legacy Primatological Theories and Primate Legacies	p. 30
Appraising Primate Kinship	p. 32
The Domain of Uterine Kindred in Primates	p. 35
How Are Uterine Kin Recognized?	p. 40
The Origin of Group-wide Kinship Structures	p. 43
From Biological to Cultural Kinship	p. 48
Beyond Consanguineal Kinship	p. 49
The "Genealogical Unity of Mankind"	p. 54
The Bilateral Character of Human Kinship	p. 57
The Incest Avoidance Legacy	p. 60
Elements of a Primatological Theory of Incest Avoidance	p. 61
Humankind's Primate Heritage	p. 68
From Behavioral Regularities to Institutionalized Rules	p. 71
The Anthropologists' Treatment of the Primate Data	p. 72
The Westermarck Knot	p. 78
The Morality Problem	p. 83
Lessons from Comparative Anatomy	p. 86
Exogamy Configuration Decomposed
Lévi-Strauss and the Deep Structure of Human Society	p. 93
Reciprocal Exogamy as a Deep Structuring Principle	p. 95
Reciprocal Exogamy as Archaic	p. 99
The Convergence beyond the Critiques	p. 101
Lévi-Strauss and the Primate Data	p. 104
Human Society Out of the Evolutionary Vacuum	p. 107
Leslie White and the Primate Origins of Exogamy	p. 109
Elman Service and the Primitive Exogamous Band	p. 113
Robin Fox and the Initial Deconstruction of Exogamy	p. 116
The Building Blocks of Exogamy	p. 122
Pinpointing the Distinctiveness of Exogamy	p. 122
Reconstructing Human Society: The Task Ahead	p. 126
A Once Irreducible System	p. 130
The Exogamy Configuration Reconstructed
The Ancestral Male Kin Group Hypothesis	p. 135
The Patrilocal Band Model	p. 136
Male Philopatry in Apes	p. 139
The Homology Hypothesis	p. 142
Updating the Ancestral Male Kin Group Hypothesis	p. 147
The Gorilla Alternative	p. 151
The Evolutionary History of Pair-Bonding	p. 157
The "Invariant Core of the Family"	p. 158
Pair-Bonds as Parental Partnerships	p. 162
The Pitfall of the Modern Family Reference	p. 168
A Two-Step Evolutionary Sequence	p. 171
Monogamy as a Special Case of Polygyny	p. 175
The Evolutionary History of the Sexual Division of Labor	p. 179
Pair-Bonding and the Reinvention of Kinship	p. 185
The Fundamental Equation of the Exogamy Configuration	p. 185
Kinship in the Ancestral Male Kin Group	p. 187
Fatherhood	p. 194
The Institutionalized Denial of Paternity	p. 196
The Development of Agnatic Kinship Structures	p. 198
Biparentality and the Transformation of Siblingships	p. 202
Chimpanzee Siblingships	p. 203
Fatherhood and the Evolution of Strong Brotherhoods	p. 205
Fatherhood and the Brother-Sister Bond	p. 209
The Added Effect of Shorter Interbirth Intervals	p. 213
Beyond the Local Group: The Rise of the Tribe	p. 216
Male Pacification as a Prerequisite for the Tribe	p. 217
Females as Peacemakers: The Consanguinity Route	p. 219
Females as Peacemakers: The Affinity Route	p. 223
The Initial Impetus	p. 226
The Prelinguistic Tribe	p. 228
From Male Philopatry to Residential Diversity	p. 235
Some Serious Discrepancies	p. 236
The Emergence of Residential Diversity	p. 238
Ancestral Patrilocality and Grandmothering	p. 243
Brothers, Sisters, and the Founding Principle of Exogamy	p. 246
The First Step: Outmarriage	p. 247
Affinal Brotherhoods and the Origin of Exogamy Rules	p. 251
From Siblings-in-Law to Cross-Cousins	p. 256
The "Atom of Kinship" Revisited	p. 259
Unilineal Descent
Filiation, Descent, and Ideology	p. 265
The African Model of Unilineal Descent Groups	p. 267
The Chestnut within the Model	p. 271
The Primate Origins of Unilineal Descent Groups	p. 276
Group Membership through Birth	p. 277
Kinship-Based Segmentation	p. 278
The Genealogical Boundaries of Exogamy	p. 281
The Unisexual Transmission of Status	p. 281
Primitive Corporateness	p. 284
A Multilevel Structure of Solidarity	p. 286
The Evolutionary History of Human Descent Female Kin Groups as Precultural Matriclans	p. 289
The Residential Basis of Proto-Descent Groups	p. 291
The Latent Patriclan	p. 291
Matrilineality as a Male Affair	p. 298
Conclusion: Human Society as Contingent	p. 301
References	p. 311
Index	p. 341
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