581 sider. Paperback. This original and ingenious book presents a new theory of the origins of human culture. Integrating perspectives of evolutionary biology and social anthropology within a Marxist framework, Chris Knight rejects the common assumption that human culture was a modified extension of. primate behavior and argues instead that it was the product of an immense social, sexual, and political revolution initiated by women.. The book outlines a new theory of human origins, focusing particularly on the emergence of symbolic ritual, kinship, religion and mythic belief. Previously, the main theory in currency was that of Claude Lévi-Strauss, who claimed that culture's rule over nature was established by men when they invented the incest taboo. In this origins model, men renounce all sexual claims to their own sisters and daughters, instead forging matrimonial alliances by exchanging their female relatives between themselves as wives.[1] Alongside the incest taboo, according to Lévi-Strauss, the dominant sex invented a further series of critically important rules concerning such things as cooking, romantic attachment, the timing of menstruation and the wearing of personal ornaments.[2] In making his very different case, Knight draws on evidence not only from mythology – Lévi-Strauss' primary source – but from a wide range of disciplines including hunter-gatherer ethnography, paleolithic archaeology, human paleontology, rock art studies, modern genetics and studies of monkeys and apes in . the wild. For Knight, symbolic culture emerged through Darwinian processes of gradual evolution culminating eventually in revolutionary change. Eksemplar som nyt: Anelse patineret på snit. Rest fra holdbestilling i 00' erne

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