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  • ÉMILE DURKHEIM AND THE BIRTH OF THE GODS
    ALEXANDRA MARYANSKI
    The Birth of the Gods is dedicated to Durkheim's effort to understand the basis of social integration. Unlike most social scientists, then and now, Durkheim concluded that humans are naturally more individualistic than collectivistic, that the primal social unit for humans is the macro-level unit ('the horde'), rather than the family, and that social cohesion is easily disrupte...

    $1,120.00

  • THE EMERGENCE AND EVOLUTION OF RELIGION
    JONATHAN TURNER / ALEXANDRA MARYANSKI / ANDERS KLOSTERGAARD PETERSEN / ARMIN W. GEERTZ
    Written by leading theorists and empirical researchers, this book presents new ways of addressing the old question: Why did religion first emerge and then continue to evolve in all human societies? The authors of the book—each with a different background across the social sciences and humanities—assimilate conceptual leads and empirical findings from anthropology, evolutionary ...

    $1,120.00

  • INCEST
    JONATHAN H. TURNER / ALEXANDRA MARYANSKI
    Throughout history humans have been fascinated with incest. Stories, fables, literature, philosophers, church officials, and scientists have explored this mysterious topic. The taboo is critical to human survival, as incest threatens the species and patterns of human social organization. Drawing upon the rich legacy of theory, empirical data, and speculation about the origins ...

    $1,420.00

  • HANDBOOK ON EVOLUTION AND SOCIETY
    ALEXANDRA MARYANSKI / RICHARD MACHALEK / JONATHAN H. TURNER
    "Handbook on Evolution and Society" brings together original chapters by prominent scholars who have been instrumental in the revival of evolutionary theorizing and research in the social sciences over the last twenty-five years. Previously unpublished essays provide up-to-date, critical surveys of recent research and key debates. The contributors discuss early challenges posed...

    $1,040.00

  • ON THE ORIGIN OF SOCIETIES BY NATURAL SELECTION
    JONATHAN H. TURNER / ALEXANDRA MARYANSKI
    Kinship, religion, and economy were not "natural" to humans, nor to species of apes that had to survive on the African savanna. Society from its very beginnings involved an uneasy necessity that often stood in conflict with humans' ape ancestry; these tensions only grew along with later, more complex-eventually colossal-sociocultural systems. The ape in us was not extinguished,...

    $1,560.00