Chris Knight, "Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture"
2013 | ISBN: 0300063083 | English | EPUB/PDF | 592 pages | 1.4/26.6 MB
2013 | ISBN: 0300063083 | English | EPUB/PDF | 592 pages | 1.4/26.6 MB
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. …