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... population growth - which , if not controlled by cultural means , will threaten a people's relationship with their eco- system . The second is limitation in protein sup- ply . The two , Harris suggests , are closely linked . CASE 10 ...
... population growth - which , if not controlled by cultural means , will threaten a people's relationship with their eco- system . The second is limitation in protein sup- ply . The two , Harris suggests , are closely linked . CASE 10 ...
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... population growth . But contra Harris , we do not yet know nearly enough about the demography of small- scale human populations and the biology of fertility and disease to make strong claims about the " natural " demographic tendencies ...
... population growth . But contra Harris , we do not yet know nearly enough about the demography of small- scale human populations and the biology of fertility and disease to make strong claims about the " natural " demographic tendencies ...
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... population regula- tion ( though there is no evidence for any such population pressure in the past3 ) . But even if this was the case , we cannot account in terms of a materialist rationality for the way the peo- ple of San Cristobal ...
... population regula- tion ( though there is no evidence for any such population pressure in the past3 ) . But even if this was the case , we cannot account in terms of a materialist rationality for the way the peo- ple of San Cristobal ...
Contents
Cases | 2 |
PARTI An Evolutionary Perspective | 11 |
The Growth of Culture | 30 |
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Aborigines adaptive Africa American ancestors anthro anthropology argues behavior bridewealth central Chapter clan colonial communities complex conceptual corporation cultural defined descent group domestic dominant ecological economic emergence European exchange exogamy exploitation female force garden Guinea household human hunter-gatherers husband ical ideologies Indian individual Islands Karimojong kinship Kpelle kula Kwaio labor Ladino land language lineage linguistic living look male Malinowski Mandan Maring marriage matrilineal means Melanesia ment Mesoamerica models myth nature nomic Nuer organization patrilineal descent patterns peasant political polygyny population Press prestige processes protein realm relationships relatives religion religious ritual role rules sexual Smiths social relations social system subclan subsistence symbolic Tallensi theory Third World tion traditional transformation tribal societies tribal world Trobriand Trobriand Islands tural Upper Paleolithic urban village wealth women yams York Zinacantan