Labour Theory of Culture Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 42
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Co-operative Hunting
Conditioned Stimulus
cooperative behaviour
Dense
Dimensional Classes
Earliest Hominids
early
Engels's Essay
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evolutionary psychology
fossil
Genus Homo
Gestural System
Higher Psychological Functions
hominids
Human Language
Koobi Fora
Kuiseb River
language evolution
Language Origins
Louis Leakey
manufacture
marxist
Marxist anthropology
Marxist Psychology
Mary Leakey
MLU
Montagu
Olduvai Bed
Olduvai Gorge
origins of human culture
primate cognition
psychology
record
Sponge
stone
tool
tool use in primates
tools
Vice Versa
Word Form
Yerkes Laboratories
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- ISBN 9780415649551
- Weight: 270g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 13 Jul 2012
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Despite its importance in understanding the social relations of labour little attention has been paid by Western Marxists to evolutionary theory. Taking as a starting point an unfinished essay by Engels, the author argues that the human species must be seen as discontinuous with its nearest biological ancestors – that a qualitative distinction was brought about by social labour. It is argued that the most likely forms of human organization were co-operative and field studies are discussed which apparently provide evidence for tool use and linguistic ability among the higher primates. The relationship between hand and brain in terms of Marxist psychology is also elaborated.
