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Creatures of Cain

Erika Lorraine Milam

Print publication date: 2018

Print ISBN-13: 9780691181882

Published to Princeton Scholarship Online: May 2019

DOI: 10.23943/princeton/9780691181882.001.0001

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Woman the Gatherer

Woman the Gatherer

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(p.133) 7 Woman the Gatherer
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Creatures of Cain
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Erika Lorraine Milam

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Princeton University Press
DOI:10.23943/princeton/9780691181882.003.0008

This chapter considers the research of women anthropologists during this period. It shows how many anthropologists had fought to refute the picture of universal male authority implied by common narratives of human evolution were women, often at the very beginning of what turned out to be long, notable careers. Their research gave fuller form to a rhetorically powerful alternative to Man the Hunter in reconstructions of human origins—Woman the Gatherer. Like her partner, Woman the Gatherer found intellectual support in research on long-extinct human ancestors, studies of human cultures today, and animal behavior, with a new emphasis on field research among primates.

Keywords:   Woman the Gatherer, primates, women anthropologists, male authority, human evolution, human origins

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