- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
Part I The Ascent Of Man -
1 Humanity in Hindsight -
2 Battle for the Stone Age -
3 Building Citizens -
Part II Naturalizing Violence -
4 Cain’s Children -
5 The Human Animal -
6 Man and Beast -
Part III Unmaking Man -
7 Woman the Gatherer -
8 The Academic Jungle -
9 The Edge of Respectability -
Part IV Political Animals -
10 The White Problem in America -
11 A Dangerous Medium -
12 Moral Lessons -
Part V Death of the Killer Ape -
13 The New Synthesis -
14 The Old Determinism -
15 Human Nature - Coda
- Appendix
- Notes
- Index
- A Note on the Type
Woman the Gatherer
Woman the Gatherer
- Chapter:
- (p.133) 7 Woman the Gatherer
- Source:
- Creatures of Cain
- Author(s):
Erika Lorraine Milam
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
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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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
Part I The Ascent Of Man -
1 Humanity in Hindsight -
2 Battle for the Stone Age -
3 Building Citizens -
Part II Naturalizing Violence -
4 Cain’s Children -
5 The Human Animal -
6 Man and Beast -
Part III Unmaking Man -
7 Woman the Gatherer -
8 The Academic Jungle -
9 The Edge of Respectability -
Part IV Political Animals -
10 The White Problem in America -
11 A Dangerous Medium -
12 Moral Lessons -
Part V Death of the Killer Ape -
13 The New Synthesis -
14 The Old Determinism -
15 Human Nature - Coda
- Appendix
- Notes
- Index
- A Note on the Type