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Rules and the emergence of society

Title
Rules and the emergence of society / by Meyer Fortes.
Author
Fortes, Meyer
Publication
London : Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1983.

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Description
iv, 52 p.; 22 cm.
Series Statement
Occasional paper / Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland ; no. 39
Uniform Title
Occasional paper (Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland) ; no. 39.
Subject
  • Social norms
  • Social evolution
  • Social structure
  • Cultural Evolution
  • Normes sociales
  • Évolution sociale
  • Structure sociale
  • social structure
  • Social evolution
  • Social norms
  • Social structure
  • Soziale Norm
  • Sociale evolutie
  • Cultuur
  • Anthropology > Philosophy
  • Anthropology, folklore and folklife studies
  • Sociology
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 47-51.
Contents
Man among the primates; The role of culture; Language; The reproductive chain; Rules in society; Rules in fieldwork; Levi-Strauss's hypothesis; The incest taboo and the sovereignty rule; Rules continued: the incest taboo aand human mating; Incest avoidances, taboos and family structures; Lineages in non-human primates; Human social continuit and fatherhood; Culture and social organization among non-human primates; Altruism and prescriptive altruism; Origins of prescriptive altruism; Sharing; Altruism in sociobiological context; Incest, taboos, alturism and society; inter- and intra-generationsl rivalry and conflict.
ISBN
  • 0900633395
  • 9780900633393
  • 0900633397 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
83243345
OCLC
  • ocm10238008
  • 10238008
  • SCSB-600075
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library