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Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture

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.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 592
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780300063080
  • Genres
  • anthropology, history, gender, feminism, sexuality
  • Release date
  • 1995