Dunbar's Number (Occasional Papers of the Royal Anthropologic): 45 (Occasional Papers of the Royal Anthropological Institute) - Hardcover

David Shankland

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1912385031 ISBN 13: 9781912385034

Publisher: Sean Kingston Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

Dunbar's Number, as the limit on the size of both social groups and personal social networks, has achieved something close to iconic status and is one of the most influential concepts to have emerged out of anthropology in the last quarter century. It is widely cited throughout the social sciences, archaeology, psychology and network science, and its reverberations have been felt as far afield as the worlds of business organization and social-networking sites, whose design it has come to underpin. Named after its originator, Robin Dunbar, whose career has spanned biological anthropology, zoology and evolutionary psychology, it stands testament to the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to human behaviour. In this collection Dunbar joins authors from a wide range of disciplines to explore Dunbar's Number's conceptual origins, as well as the evidence supporting it, and to reflect on its wider implications in archaeology, social anthropology and medicine.

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About the Author

David Shankland (Editor) is Director of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and Honorary Professor of Anthropology at UCL. His interests include Turkey, migration, the study of the Alevis, and the history of anthropology and its sub-disciplines. Robin Dunbar FBA (Contributor) is Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Oxford. He has held chairs in biological anthropology (UCL and University of Oxford), Zoology (University of Liverpool) and Psychology (Universities of Liverpool and Oxford). His principal areas of research interest are concerned with social evolution in mammals. Contributors: Simon Dein, Robin Dunbar, Clive Gamble, Esther Goody, Matt Grove, Russell A. Hill, Robert A. Foley, Christopher Opie, S.J. Smith, S.J. Underdown, James H. Wade.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sean Kingston Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1912385031
• ISBN 13: 9781912385034
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 198
• Editor: David Shankland