Full Description
In view of the new forays from biology into the Humanities, this book aims not only to demonstrate the inconsistencies of the theory of evolution in addressing cultural dynamics but also to offer an alternative that begins from a resumption of the dialogue between anthropology and historical materialism in which dialectics reintroduces itself to anthropology from different premises and the role of symbolic language within materialism is reevaluated.
Contents
Acknowledgements
About The Excluded Third
1 Introduction: Toward a New Utopian Horizon
2 New Forays from Biology into the Humanities
1 The Role of Sexuality
2 Evolving and R-evolving
3 The Life of Culture
4 Culture, Language and Evolution
5 Sociobiology and Super-Organisms
6 Psychology of Culture
3 Toward a Dialectical Anthropology
1 Cultural Niches and Frontiers
2 The Primitive Exchange Economy
3 Alienization and Materialism
4 Marxism and Anthropology
4 Symbolic Language and the Time of Culture
1 Philosophies of Language and of Culture
References
Index
