Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture - Hardcover

Knight, Chris

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9780300049114: Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture

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ISBN 10: 0300049110 ISBN 13: 9780300049114

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1991

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"for nearly two decades, Levi-Strassian structuralism was the most influencial anthropological strategy in Western Europe"

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"A most important, novel, well-argued and monumental piece of work." - David Lewis-Williams, author of Believing and Seeing.

"This book may be the most important ever written on the evolution of human social organization." - Alex Walter, author of Evolutionary Psychology and the Propositional-attitudes.

"Revolutions in science seldom appear ready made, but I suspect that the basis of anew synthesis between anthropology and biology may well lie within thepages of this book." - Robin Dunbar, Times Higher Educational Supplement.

"Chris Knight in Blood Relations has this 'extraordinary resolve'. His is an immense work ofdocumentation and close argument. ... It appears to solve most of theoutstanding conundrums in contemporary anthropology." - Peter Redgrove, Times Literary Supplement.

"A quite remarkable contribution to our subject." - Marilyn Strathern, author The Gender of the Gift.

"Blood Relations is an extraordinary work, in which imaginary creatures andmagical events are orchestrated on a global scale, from Australia toAmazonia, into a single vision of how humans created humanity." - Marek Kohn, The Independent.

"Chris Knight's great achievement is to put logic in what, otherwise, lookslike a vast mess of anecdotal anthropological facts." - Jean-Louis Dessalles, author of Why We Talk.

"A refreshing alternative to the plethora of prosaic and sexist variations on the 'Man-the-Hunter' theory of the origins of human culture." - Cris Shore, author of The Sage Handbook of Social Anthropology.

"Blood Relations points us all in a refreshingly new direction." - Clive Gamble, author of Origins and Revolutions.

"This is the most ambitious project on the origins of culture to have emerged for decades." - Mary Douglas, author of Purity and Danger.

"I suspect that it will be a slow burning classic, revived from time totime, but then discarded because it repudiates bourgeois metaphysics." - Keith Hart, author of The Memory Bank.

"Chris Knight has taken on the task of explicating not only the whys and howsof human cultural evolution, but also vast constellations of culturalbehaviour covering Australia, Africa, Europe and all of the Americas.His scholarship is impeccable." - R. E. Davis-Floyd, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

"Chris Knight has a political agenda, and he is not going to hide it from us.... The result is an exhilaratingly original edifice of astonishingrange." - Caroline Humphrey, London Review of Books.

"As women all over the world fight for control over their own sexuality and fertility, Chris Knight in Blood Relations has performed a service. We can now prove that we're demanding nothingnew. We once had collective control over our own bodies; our fight nowis to regain it." - Leonora Lloyd, secretary National Abortion Campaign.

"Chris Knight has produced a book of absorbing interest." - Agnes Miles, Sociology of Health and Illness.

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