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  • Darwinism, Dogma, and Cultural Evolution
    C. R. Hallpike
    Neo-Darwinian philosophy claims that random variation plus natural selection are sufficient to explain the emergence of order everywhere in the world, including the evolution of human culture. Like a Greek vase, Universal Darwinism, as it has come to be called, is held up as a model of beauty and elegance that needs no improvement, but beauty and elegance are no substitute for ...
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  • Ship of Fools
    C. R. Hallpike
    Dr. Hallpike spent his first ten years as an anthropologist living with mountain tribes in Ethiopia and Papua New Guinea and writing up his research for publication. He learned that primitive societies are very different from our modern industrialised societies and that it takes a considerable amount study to understand how they work.But since all Man's ancestors used to li...
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    21,33 €

  • Ethical Thought in Increasingly Complex Societies
    C.R. Hallpike / C.RHallpike / CRHallpike
    Ethical Thought in Increasingly Complex Societies: Social Structure and Moral Development combines insights of developmental psychology and cultural anthropology to examine the development of moral thinking. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of small-scale communities of hunter-gatherers and farmers in Ethiopia and Papua New Guinea, C.R. Hallpike studies the means by which ind...
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    63,99 €

  • Ethical Thought in Increasingly Complex Societies
    C R Hallpike / C.R. Hallpike / C.RHallpike
    Ethical Thought in Increasingly Complex Societies: Social Structure and Moral Development combines insights of developmental psychology and cultural anthropology to examine the development of moral thinking. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of small-scale communities of hunter-gatherers and farmers in Ethiopia and Papua New Guinea, C.R. Hallpike studies the means by which ind...
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    142,89 €

  • On Primitive Society
    C. R. Hallpike
    Political correctness has reduced social anthropology to a state of terminal incoherence, and this collection of papers demolishes some of the fashionable taboos that are involved. The ultra-Darwinism of some sociobiologists has also degenerated into a cult which, like political correctness, is increasingly resistant to rational debate. As well as including some well-known clas...
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    35,34 €

  • How We Got Here
    C. R. Hallpike
    Only 10,000 years ago, our ancestors were small groups of hunter-gatherers, with bows and arrows and stone tools. Today, we live in vast nations with all the power of modern science and industry, and the ability to send men to the Moon and to destroy all life on the planet. In the history of the world, 10,000 years is the blink of an eye, yet it has seen the total transformatio...
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    26,03 €

  • The Konso of Ethiopia
    C. R. Hallpike
    When The Konso of Ethiopia was first published in 1972, the American Anthropologist described it as ’a work which is destined to become a classic’. The Konso are one of the most important peoples of East Africa, and the author was able to revisit them in 1997. As a result he discovered large amounts of entirely new material, and has been able to produce a completely revised edi...
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    26,38 €