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The emergence of symbolic culture is generally linked with the development of the hunger-gatherer adaptation based on a sexual division of labor. This original and ingenious book presents a new theory of how this symbolic domain originated. Integrating perspectives of evolutionary biography and social anthropology within a Marxist framework, Chris Knight rejects the common assumption that human culture was a modified extension of primate behavior and argues instead that it was the product of an immense social, sexual, and political revolution initiated by women.
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Blood Relations, Chris Knight
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- 1995
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- Title
- Blood Relations
- Subtitle
- Menstruation and the Origins of Culture
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Chris Knight
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Released
- 1995
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 592
- ISBN10
- 0300063083
- ISBN13
- 9780300063080
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- Menstruation
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- 4 out of 5
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- The emergence of symbolic culture is generally linked with the development of the hunger-gatherer adaptation based on a sexual division of labor. This original and ingenious book presents a new theory of how this symbolic domain originated. Integrating perspectives of evolutionary biography and social anthropology within a Marxist framework, Chris Knight rejects the common assumption that human culture was a modified extension of primate behavior and argues instead that it was the product of an immense social, sexual, and political revolution initiated by women.