Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subtitle on cover: Humanity, culture, and social life.

Part I : Humanity.
Introduction to humanity / Tim Ingold -- Humanity and animality / Tim Ingold -- The evolution of early hominids / Phillip V. Tobias -- Human evolution : the last one million years / Clive Gamble -- The origins and evolution of language / Philip Lieberman -- Tools and tool behaviour / Thomas Wynn -- Niche construction, evolution and culture / F.J. Odling-Smee -- Modes of subsistence : hunting and gathering to agriculture and pastoralism / Roy Ellen -- The diet and nutrition of human populations / Igor de Garine -- Demographic expansion : causes and consequences / Mark N. Cohen -- Disease and the destruction of indigenous populations / Stephen J. Kunitz –

Part II : Culture.
Introduction to culture / Tim Ingold -- Why animals have neither culture nor history / David Premack, Ann James Premack -- Symbolism : the foundation of culture / Mary LeCron Foster -- Artefacts and the meaning of things / Daniel Miller -- Technology / François Sigaut -- Spatial organization and the built environment / Amos Rapoport -- Perceptions of time / Barbara Adam -- Aspects of literacy / Brian V. Street, Niko Besnier -- Magic, religion and the rationality of belief / Gilbert Lewis -- Myth and metaphor / James F. Weiner -- Ritual and performance / Richard Schechner -- The anthropology of art / Howard Morphy -- Music and dance / Anthony Seeger -- The politics of culture : ethnicity and nationalism / Anthony D. Smith –

Part III : Social life.
Introduction to social life / Tim Ingold -- Sociality among humans and non-human animals / R.I.M. Dunbar -- Rules and prohibitions : the form and content of human kinship / Alan Barnard -- Understanding sex and gender / Henrietta L. Moore -- Socialization, enculturation and the development of personal identity / Fitz John Porter Poole -- Social aspects of language use / Jean DeBernardi -- Work, the division of labour and co-operation / Sutti Ortiz -- Exchange and reciprocity / C.A. Gregory -- Political domination and social evolution / Timothy Earle -- Law and dispute processes / Simon Roberts -- Collective violen The nation state, colonial expansion and the contemporary world order / Peter Worsley.