Complex Life: Nonmodernity and the Emergence of Cognition and Culture - Hardcover

Dean, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754610497 ISBN 13: 9780754610496

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 1999

Synopsis

This text argues for the importance of the new perspective of non-modern social theory in understanding human agency. Darwinian natural selection theory and complexity theory are used to provide new insights into human origins, mind and culture. Through bringing these ideas together it is argued that nature and culture are inseparably linked within human agency and that in consequence it is time to transcend the limitations of both modern and postmodern social science. This book argues that nature has never been controlled or transcended. Humankind is instead an emerged outcome of the historical interweaving of the environment, morphology, mind and culture. This wide-ranging analysis offers new insights into human nature for anthropologists and sociologists interested in human evolution, social theory or human agency.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0754610497
• ISBN 13: 9780754610496
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160