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(More customer reviews)This book was a revelation for me. Having struggled through numerousturgid anthropological works by the likes of Levi-Strauss, Roheim, etc., itwas thrilling to read such an ambitious clear-sighted and compellingaccount of the origins of human culture, together with an excellentcritique of much current anthropological thinking.
It's worth mentioningthat Chris Knight is a marxist, and by that I don't mean vaguely left-wingin the manner of, say, Eric Hobsbawm. He's a real believer...dialecticmaterialism, the whole works. Clearly Knight believes his marxism isessential to his thesis. I would argue that although this maybe enabled himto see through other anthropological schools - structuralism,functionalism, what-have-you - and to develop his own theories, in the endit's irrelevant to his conclusions. So, wade through the marxist stuff, youcan ignore it, it's not to my mind necessary to agree with his ideologicalbeliefs (I don't) to appreciate his arguments, and to agree with much ofwhat he says - or at least to find this a wonderfully stimulating book.
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This original and ingenious book presents a new theory of the origins of human culture. Integrating perspectives of evolutionary biology 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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