1. Introdution Part I. The Family-Level Group: 2. The family level 3. Family-level foragers 4. Families with domestication Part II. The Local Group: 5. The local group 6. The family and the village 7. The village and the clan 8. The corporate group and the big man collectivity P…
This work seeks to describe and explain the growth in complexity of human societies. Its emphasis is on the causes, mechanisms, and patterns of cultural evolution, which the authors explain in terms of a coherent theory of the political economy.
"This book seeks to describe and explain the growth in complexity of human societies, emphasising on the causes, mechanisms, and patterns of cultural evolution, and that the interconnected processes of technological change and population growth are the motor of social change."
"By combining an original thesis and a representative body of ethnographic data, this ambitious work seeks to describe and explain the growth in complexity of human societies." "Its emphasis is on the causes, mechanisms, and patterns of cultural evolution, which the authors expl…
Table of Contents Introduction 1 1 Critique of Scholastic Reason 9 2 The Three Forms of Scholastic Fallacy 49 3 The Historicity of Reason 93 4 Bodily Knowledge 128 5 Symbolic Violence and Political Struggles 164 6 Social Being, Time and the Sense of Existence 206 Subject Index 2…
"In this work, Pierre Bourdieu develops a critique of scholastic reason, making explicit the presuppositions entailed by the situation of ekbole of free time, liberated from the exigencies of the world, that makes possible a free and liberated relation to the world." "This criti…
"In this work, Pierre Bourdieu develops a critique of scholastic reason, making explicit the presuppositions entailed by the situation of ekbole of free time, liberated from the exigencies of the world, that makes possible a free and liberated relation to the world." "This criti…
"In this work, Pierre Bourdieu develops a critique of scholastic reason, making explicit the presuppositions entailed by the situation of ekbole of free time, liberated from the exigencies of the world, that makes possible a free and liberated relation to the world." "This criti…