Dwight Read: 3 books
Human Thought and Social Organization
Anthropology on a New Plane
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Two characteristics of human beings as a species are the elaboration of our thought through language and symbolism and the pluralistic nature of our systems of social organization. Human Thought and Social Organization shows empirically and precisely, how these two characteristics are related by determining...
How Culture Makes Us Human
Primate Social Evolution and the Formation of Human Societies
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
What separates modern humans from our primate cousins—are we a mere blink in the march of evolution, or does human culture represent the definitive evolutionary turn? Dwight Read explores the dilemma in this engaging, thought-provoking book, taking readers through an evolutionary odyssey from our...
Artifact Classification
A Conceptual and Methodological Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Archaeologists have been developing artifact typologies to understand cultural categories for as long as the discipline has existed. Dwight Read examines these attempts to systematize the cultural domains in premodern societies through a historical study of pottery typologies. He then offers a methodology...