FOOD AND EVOLUTION

Toward a Theory of Human Food Habits

Libro editado por Marvin Harris y Eric B. Ross (1987)

Contenido:

Introduction

Part I. Theoretical Overview

1. An Overview of Trends in Dietary Variation from Hunter-Gatherer to Modern Capitalist Societies
ERIC B. ROSS
2. Foodways: Historical Overview and Theoretical Prolegomenon
MARVIN HARRIS

Part II. Bioevolutionary Antecedents and Constraints

3. Primate Diets and Gut Morphology: Implications for Hominid Evolution
KATHARINE MILTON
4. Omnivorous Primate Diets and Human Overconsumption of Meat
WILLIAM J. HAMILTON III
5. Fava Bean Consumption: A Case for the CoEvolution of Genes and Culture
SOLOMON H. KATZ

Part III. Nutritional and Biopsychological Constraints

6. Problems and Pitfalls in the Assessment of Human Nutritional Status
P. L. PELLETT
7. Psychobiological Perspectives on Food Preferences and Avoidances
PAUL ROZIN
8. The Preference for Animal Protein and f'at: A Cross-Cultural Survey
H. LEON ABRAMS, JR.
9. Biocultural Consequences of Animals Versus Plants as Sources of Fats, Proteins, and Other Nutrients
LESLIE SUE LIEBERMAN

Part IV. Pre-State Foodways: Past and Present

10. The Significance of Long-Term Changes in Human Diet and Food Economy
MARK N. COHEN
11. Life in the "Garden of Eden": Causes and Consequences of the Adoption of Marine Diets by
Human Societies
DAVID R. YESNER
12. The Analysis of Hunter-Gatherer Diets: Stalking an Optimal Foraging Model
BRUCE WINTERHALDER
13. How Much Food Do Foragers Need?
KRISTEN HAWKES
14. Aboriginal Subsistence in a Tropical Rain Forest Environment: Food Procurement, Cannibalism, and Population Regulation in Northeastern Australia
DAVID R. HARRIS
15. Ecological and Structural Influences on the Proportions of Wild Foods in the Diets of Two
Machiguenga Communities
ALLEN JOHNSON and MICHAEL BAKSH
16. Limiting Factors in Amazonian Ecology
KENNETH R. GOOD

Part V. The Political Economy and the Political Ecology of Contemporary Foodways

17. Loaves and Fishes in Bangladesh
SHIRLEY LINDENBAUM
18. Animal Protein Consumption and the Sacred Cow Complex in India
K. N. NAIR
19. The Effects of Colonialism and Neocolonialism on the Gastronomic Patterns of the Third 'Vorld
RICHARD W. FRANKE
20. Stability and Change in Highland Andean Dietary Patterns
BENJAMIN S. ORLOVE
21. Social Class and Diet in Contemporary Mexico
GRETEL H. PELTO
22. From Costa Rican Pasture to North American Hamburger
MARC EDELMAN

Part VI. Discussion and Conclusions

23. The Evolution of Human Subsistence
ANNA ROOSEVELT
24. Biocultural Aspects of Food Choice
GEORGE ARMELAGOS

THE ORIGINS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOUR

Libro de R. A. Foley (1991)


Introduction: investigating the origins of human behaviour R.A.Foley

1 Chimpanzee material culture: what are its limits and why?
W.C.McGrew

Introduction
Culture and symbols
Environment and adaptation
Diet
Home bases
Technology
Conclusions

2 How useful is the culture concept in early hominid studies?
R.A.Foley

Introduction
Definitions of culture
The use of culture in palaeoanthropology
The inadequacy of culture
Those damned chimpanzees
The evolution of complex and flexible behaviour
Conclusions

3 The significance of modern hunter-gatherers in the study of early hominid behaviour
Francis B.Musonda

Introduction
Environmental setting
Settlement patterns
Subsistence activities
Social organization
Conclusions

4 Archaeological evidence for modern intelligence
Thomas Wynn

Introduction
Archaeology and intelligence
A Piagetian approach to prehistoric intelligence
Concrete operations
Archaeological evidence for concrete operations
Formal operations
Archaeological evidence for formal operations
Critique of formal operations
Conclusions

5 The invention of computationally plausible knowledge systems in the Upper Palaeolithic Sheldon Klein

The problem of computing human behaviour by rules
The basic structure of the invention
ATOs, language, and culture
ATOs and the ontogeny of shamanism
The evidence of Lévi-Strauss
Testing the ATO model in historical time
Conclusions

6 An interactive growth model applied to the expansion of Upper Palaeolithic populations
Ezra B.W.Zubrow

The background
The model
Results from the model
Conclusions

7 Aboriginal fossil hominids: evolution and migrations
Phillip J.Habgood