4. The biological in the cultural: the five agents and the body ecologic in Chinese medicine

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of figures and tables vii
4. List of contributors ix
5. Preface xi
6. Introduction: emergence and convergence 1
7. 1. Bioculturalism 21
8. 2. The biological in the social: evolutionary approaches to human behaviour 52
9. 3. Domesticating the landscape, producing crops and reproducing society in Amazonia 72
10. 4. The biological in the cultural: the five agents and the body ecologic in Chinese medicine 91
11. 5. On the social, the biological and the political: revisiting Beatrice Blackwood’s research and teaching 127
12. 6. Anthropological theory and the multiple determinacy of the present 148
13. 7. Holism, intelligence and time 182
14. 8. Movement, knowledge and description 194
15. 9. The evolution and history of religion 212
16. 10. The visceral in the social: the crowd as paradigmatic type 234
17. Bibliography 255
18. Index 287