- Preface
- A Forsaken Quest
- The Deep Structure of Human Societies
- The Phylogenetic Decomposition Principle
- Reconstructing the Exogamy Configuration
- Primatological Theories and Primate Legacies
- Appraising Primate Kinship
- The Domain of Uterine Kindred in Primates
- How Are Uterine Kin Recognized?
- The Origin of Group-wide Kinship Structures
- Beyond Consanguineal Kinship
- The “Genealogical Unity of Mankind”
- The Bilateral Character of Human Kinship
- Elements of a Primatological Theory of Incest Avoidance
- Humankind’s Primate Heritage
- The Anthropologists’ Treatment of the Primate Data
- The Westermarck Knot
- The Morality Problem
- Lessons from Comparative Anatomy
- Reciprocal Exogamy as a Deep Structuring Principle
- Reciprocal Exogamy as Archaic
- The Convergence beyond the Critiques
- Lévi-Strauss and the Primate Data
- Leslie White and the Primate Origins of Exogamy
- Elman Service and the Primitive Exogamous Band
- Robin Fox and the Initial Deconstruction of Exogamy
- Pinpointing the Distinctiveness of Exogamy
- Reconstructing Human Society: The Task Ahead
- A Once Irreducible System
- The Patrilocal Band Model
- Male Philopatry in Apes
- The Homology Hypothesis
- Updating the Ancestral Male Kin Group Hypothesis
- The Gorilla Alternative
- The “Invariant Core of the Family”
- Pair-Bonds as Parental Partnerships
- The Pitfall of the Modern Family Reference
- A Two-Step Evolutionary Sequence
- Monogamy as a Special Case of Polygyny
- The Evolutionary History of the Sexual Division of Labor
- The Fundamental Equation of the Exogamy Configuration
- Kinship in the Ancestral Male Kin Group
- Fatherhood
- The Institutionalized Denial of Paternity
- The Development of Agnatic Kinship Structures
- Chimpanzee Siblingships
- Fatherhood and the Evolution of Strong Brotherhoods
- Fatherhood and the Brother–Sister Bond
- The Added Effect of Shorter Interbirth Intervals
- Male Pacification as a Prerequisite for the Tribe
- Females as Peacemakers: The Consanguinity Route
- Females as Peacemakers: The Affinity Route
- The Initial Impetus
- The Prelinguistic Tribe
- Some Serious Discrepancies
- The Emergence of Residential Diversity
- Ancestral Patrilocality and Grandmothering
- The First Step: Outmarriage
- Affinal Brotherhoods and the Origin of Exogamy Rules
- From Siblings-in-Law to Cross-Cousins
- The “Atom of Kinship” Revisited
- The African Model of Unilineal Descent Groups
- The Chestnut within the Model
- Group Membership through Birth
- Kinship-Based Segmentation
- The Genealogical Boundaries of Exogamy
- The Unisexual Transmission of Status
- Primitive Corporateness
- A Multilevel Structure of Solidarity
- Female Kin Groups as Precultural Matriclans
- The Residential Basis of Proto–Descent Groups
- The Latent Patriclan
- Matrilineality as a Male Affair
- References
- Index
Primeval Kinship
How Pair-Bonding Gave Birth to Human Society
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$24.00 • £17.95 • €21.60
ISBN 9780674046412
Publication: March 2010
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Awards
- 2010 W.W. Howells Book Prize, Biological Anthropology Section of the American Anthropological Association
- Honorable Mention, 2008 Association of American Publishers PROSE Award, Biological Sciences Category
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