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How Culture Makes Us Human

Primate Social Evolution and the Formation of Human Societies

By: Dwight W Read

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How Culture Makes Us Human

Primate Social Evolution and the Formation of Human Societies

By: Dwight W Read

What separates modern humans from our primate cousins—are we a mere blink in the march of evolution, or does human culture represent the definitive evolutionary turn? Dwight Read explores the dilemma in this engaging, thought-provoking book, taking readers through an evolutionary odyssey from our primate beginnings through the development of culture and social organization. He assesses the two major trends in this field: one that sees us as a logical culmination of primate evolution, arguing that the rudiments of culture exist in primates and even magpies, and another that views the human transition as so radical that the primate model provides no foundation for understanding human dynamics. Expertly synthesizing a wide body of evidence from the anthropological and life sciences in accessible prose, Read’s book will interest a broad readership from experts to undergraduate students and the general public.

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284

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Routledge

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1315427230

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9781315427232

Artifact Classification

A Conceptual and Methodological Approach

By: Dwight W Read

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Artifact Classification

A Conceptual and Methodological Approach

By: Dwight W Read

Archaeologists have been developing artifact typologies to understand cultural categories for as long as the discipline has existed. Dwight Read examines these attempts to systematize the cultural domains in premodern societies through a historical study of pottery typologies. He then offers a methodology for producing classifications that are both salient to the cultural groups that produced them and relevant for establishing cultural categories and timelines for the archaeologist attempting to understand the relationship between material culture and ideational culture of ancient societies. This volume is valuable to upper level students and professional archaeologists across the discipline.

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391

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Routledge

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1315433478

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9781315433479

Human Thought and Social Organization

Anthropology on a New Plane

By: Murray J. Leaf,Dwight W. Read

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Human Thought and Social Organization

Anthropology on a New Plane

By: Murray J. Leaf,Dwight W. Read

Two characteristics of human beings as a species are: the elaboration of our thought through language and symbolism, and the pluralistic nature of our systems of social organization. This book shows how these two characteristics are related by determining the conceptual structures that are fundamental to human thought and social organization.

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477

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Lexington Books

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0739170287

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9780739170281

Introduction to the Science of Kinship

By: Murray J. Leaf,Dwight Read

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Introduction to the Science of Kinship

By: Murray J. Leaf,Dwight Read

In Introduction to the Science of Kinship, Murray J. Leaf and Dwight Read show how humans use specific systems of social ideas to organize their kinship relations and illustrate what this implies for the science of human social organization. Leaf and Read explain that every human society has multiple social organizations, each of which is associated with a distinct vocabulary. This vocabulary is associated with interrelated definitions of social roles and relations. These roles and relations have four specific logical properties: reciprocity, transitivity, boundedness, and imaginary spatial dimensionality. These properties allow individuals to use them in communication to create ongoing, agreed-upon, organizations. This book is recommended for scholars of anthropology, sociology, linguistics, and mathematics.

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337

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793632383

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9781793632388

Journal of the American Oriental Society

Vol. 9

By: Edward E. Salisbury,William Dwight Whitney,James Hadley,Ezra Abbot,Arnold Guyot

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Journal of the American Oriental Society

Vol. 9

By: Edward E. Salisbury,William Dwight Whitney,James Hadley,Ezra Abbot,Arnold Guyot

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

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570

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385112044

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9783385112049

Book's by Dwight W. Read

How Culture Makes Us Human

How Culture Makes Us Human

Artifact Classification

Artifact Classification

Human Thought and Social Organization

Human Thought and Social Organization

Introduction to the Science of Kinship

Introduction to the Science of Kinship

Journal of the American Oriental Society

Journal of the American Oriental Society

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