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The Social Animal
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The Social Animal is a classic investigation of human beings as social animals.
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A la recherche du temps perdu 133
Achuar 135, 136, 137, 138
advertising 13
Age of Equipoise, The 134
aggression 5, 87, 88, 133
see also violence
Algeria 61
America see United States of America
analogues 28
anarchism 182
Andaman Islands 24
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 140
anthropologists 31, 32, 134
anthropology vii, 33
anti-Semitism 172
Acquisitive Society, The 207
Ardeshir, King 79
Aristotle 1, 46, 69, 128
Aron, Raymond 49
Arrow, Kenneth J. 182
Arunta 50
As You Like It 3
Asch, S. E. 89, 91
Ashanti 23
Attitude-Merchants (AMs) 57, 61, 62, 150, 184, 209
inequality 122
power 123
state of nature 85
statistics, use of 101, 105
Augustus, emperor see Octavian
Austin, J. L. 200, 202, 204
autobiographies 36, 179
Aymara 152
Azande 26, 35, 137, 197
Aztec 124
Babylonia 120
Bacon, Francis 56
Balchin, Nigel 134
Beatitude-Merchants (BMs) 57
Behaviorism vii, 52, 54, 55, 56, 186
behaviour 6, 28, 132, 136
acquired 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 21, 37
altruistic 5
causes 31
collective 91
criminal 41
crowds 90, 91
evoked 9, 10, 37, 141
imposed 9, 10, 14, 15, 21, 37, 65
patterns of 5, 6, 10, 11, 44, 61, 85, 91, 123, 124, 133
reciprocal 3, 11
selfish 5
social 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 31, 41, 85
see also patterned interaction, ritual
beliefs 35, 198, 210
sorcery 88
Beveridge, William 193, 194
Bevin, Ernest 179
biologists 11, 17
Bismarck 155
Black, Max 60
Blair, Captain Archibald 24
Bloch, Marc 112, 113, 114, 148, 168
Bloch, Maurice 39, 40
Boesky, Ivan 107
Bolivian Revolution 151–53, 173
Booth, Charles 99
Bou...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Preface
- I: A Very Social Animal
- II: What Exactly Do You Want to Know?
- III: A Catalogue of Errors
- IV: Power
- V: Matters of Chance
- VI: Structures and Cultures
- VII: History
- VIII: Ups and Downs
- IX: Possible and Impossible Worlds
- X: Uses and Abuses
- Notes
- Index
- Other Works
- Copyright
- About the Publisher