Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray

Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray

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MergingConcepts posted on r/askanthropology6d

The book "When God was a Woman" by Merlin Stone provides a good timeline from matrilineal to patrilineal cultures. The book "Anatomy of Love" by Helen fisher does a nice job of explaining the relationship between the development of large scale agriculture and loss of female human rights. This essay on Medium explains the contemporary politics related to the acceptance of the matrilineal history of the human family: https://medium.com/@shedlesky/early-human-kinship-and-the-politics-of-anthropology-fed22f581bdd.

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