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Contents

List of figures and tables
List of contributors
Preface

Introduction: Emergence and convergence
David Parkin

Chapter 1. Bioculturalism
Stanley J. Ulijaszek

Chapter 2. The biological in the social: evolutionary approaches to human behaviour
Robin Dunbar

Chapter 3. Domesticating the landscape, producing crops and reproducing society in Amazonia
Laura Rival

Chapter 4. The biological in the cultural: the fi ve agents and the body ecologic in Chinese medicine
Elisabeth Hsu

Chapter 5. On the social, the biological and the political: revisiting Beatrice Blackwood’s research and teaching
Laura Peers

Chapter 6. Anthropological theory and the multiple determinacy of the present
Howard Morphy

Chapter 7. Holism, intelligence and time
Chris Gosden

Chapter 8. Movement, knowledge and description
Tim Ingold

Chapter 9. The evolution and history of religion
Harvey Whitehouse

Chapter 10. The visceral in the social: the crowd as paradigmatic type
David Parkin

Bibliography
Index

Holistic Anthropology

Emergence and Convergence

Edited by David Parkin and Stanley Ulijaszek

224 pages, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-84545-354-1 Hb Published (November 2007)

eISBN 978-0-85745-319-8
web ISBN 978-0-85745-319-8