Preface ix
General introduction
Tim Ingold xiii
The contributors xxiii
PART I: HUMANITY 1
1. Introduction to humanity
Tim Ingold 3
2. Humanity and animality
Tim Ingold 14
3. The evolution of early hominids
Phillip V.Tobias 33
4. Human evolution: the last one million years
Clive Gamble 79
5. The origins and evolution of language
Philip Lieberman 108
6. Tools and tool behaviour
Thomas Wynn 133
7. Niche construction, evolution and culture
F.J.Odling-Smee 162
8. Modes of subsistence: hunting and gathering to agriculture and pastoralism
Roy Ellen 197
9. The diet and nutrition of human populations
Igor de Garine 226
10. Demographic expansion: causes and consequences
Mark N.Cohen 265
11. Disease and the destruction of indigenous populations
Stephen J.Kunitz 297
PART II: CULTURE 327
12. Introduction to culture
Tim Ingold 329
13. Why animals have neither culture nor history
David Premack and Ann James Premack 350
14. Symbolism: the foundation of culture
Mary LeCron Foster 366
15. Artefacts and the meaning of things
Daniel Miller 396
16. Technology
François Sigaut 420
17. Spatial organization and the built environment
Amos Rapoport 460
18. Perceptions of time
Barbara Adam 503
19. Aspects of literacy
Brian V.Street and Niko Besnier 527
20. Magic, religion and the rationality of belief
Gilbert Lewis 563
21. Myth and metaphor
James F.Weiner 591
22. Ritual and performance
Richard Schechner 613
23. The anthropology of art
Howard Morphy 648
24. Music and dance
Anthony Seeger 686
25. The politics of culture: ethnicity and nationalism
Anthony D.Smith 706
PART III: SOCIAL LIFE 735
26. Introduction to social life
Tim Ingold 737
27. Sociality among humans and non-human animals
R.I.M.Dunbar 756
28. Rules and prohibitions: the form and content of human kinship
Alan Barnard 783
29. Understanding sex and gender
Henrietta L.Moore 813
30. Socialization, enculturation and the development of personal identity
Fitz John Porter Poole 831
31. Social aspects of language use
Jean DeBernardi 861
32. Work, the division of labour and co-operation
Sutti Ortiz 891
33. Exchange and reciprocity
C.A.Gregory 911
34. Political domination and social evolution
Timothy Earle 940
35. Law and dispute processes
Simon Roberts 962
36. Collective violence and common security
Robert A.Rubinstein 983
37. Inequality and equality
André Béteille 1010
38. The nation state, colonial expansion and the contemporary world order
Peter Worsley 1040
Index 1067