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Contents

Introduction
Camilla Power, Morna Finnegan and Hilary Callan

Chapter 1. Forty Years On: Biosocial Anthropology Revisited
Hilary Callan

Chapter 2. Rethinking the Relationship between Studies of Ethnobiological Knowledge and the Evolution of Human Cultural Cognition
Roy Ellen

Chapter 3. Toward a Theory of Everything
Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis

Chapter 4. Sexual Insult and Female Militancy
Shirley G. Ardener

Chapter 5. Who Sees the Elephant?  Sexual Egalitarianism in Social Anthropology's Room
Morna Finnegan

Chapter 6. From Metaphor to Symbols and Grammar: The Cumulative Cultural Evolution of Language
Andrew D. M. Smith and Stefan Hoefler

Chapter 7. Reconstructing a Source Cosmology for African Hunter-gatherers
Camilla Power

Chapter 8. Sounds in the Night: Ritual Bells, Therianthropes, and Eland Relations among the Hadza
Thea Skaanes

Chapter 9. Human Physiology, San Shamanic Healing and the ‘Cognitive Revolution’
Chris Low

Chapter 10. Rain Serpents in Northern Australia and Southern Africa: a Common Ancestry?
Ian Watts

Chapter 11. Bedouin Matrilineality Revisited
Suzanne E. Joseph

Chapter 12. ‘From Lucy to Language: The Archaeology of the Social Brain’ An Open Invitation for Social Anthropology to Join the Evolutionary Debate
Wendy James

Afterword
Alan Barnard

Bibliography
Index

Human Origins

Contributions from Social Anthropology

Edited by Camilla Power, Morna Finnegan and Hilary Callan
Afterword by Alan Barnard

364 pages, 6 illus., 2 tables, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-78533-378-1 Hb Published (December 2016)

eISBN 978-1-78533-379-8 eBook