Overview

As the sequel to Groups (2013) and Institutions (2017), Others is the third work produced by a collaborative research project involving primatologists and anthropologists on the evolutionary historical foundations of human sociality. This book presents cutting edge research into the meaning of ""the other"" and the dynamic process of ""othering"". Each of the eighteen chapters examines various aspects of ""others"" via the researchers' specialties, with subject matter ranging from the disappearance of the alpha male in a chimpanzees group to the way the other is produced amongst Canadian Inuit through their relationship with wild animals. What is generated is a unique collection of essays that is both grounded in empirical evidence and strengthened by its intricate engagement with the depth and breadth of theoretical work on the topic of ""the other"", as it furthers our understanding of the nature of human sociality.

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Author:   Kaori Kawai
Publisher:   Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press
Imprint:   Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   1.179kg
ISBN:  

9781925608830

ISBN 10:   1925608832
Pages:   500
Publication Date:   28 February 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Figures Photographs Tables Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction--Finding Others from an Evolutionary Perspective: The Search for the Evolutionary Historical Foundations of Human Sociality Kaori Kawai Part I: Aspects of Others: Emergence, Formation and Transformation 1 Approving Others and Incomprehensible Others in Primate Society Suehisa Kuroda 2 Are Animals Others or Are There Others to Animals? Michio Nakamura 3 When Others Appear Toru Soga 4 The Other Who Can Refuse : A Precondition for Transition to Human Society K?ji Kitamura 5 Empathy and Social Evolution: The Human History of Understanding Others Hitoshige Hayaki Part II: Others and Other Groups: How to Interact with the Counterpart 6 Who Is the Alpha Male? The Appearance of the Other in Chimpanzee Society Hitonaru Nishie 7 Encountering the Other : How Chimpanzees Face Indeterminacy Noriko Itoh 8 When Pricking Up One's Ears for the Voices of Strangers: Others in Chimpanzee Society Shunkichi Hanamura 9 The Origins of Consideration for One's Enemy : What Kind of Others Are Neighboring Groups to the Dodoth? Kaori Kawai Part III: The Representation and Ontology of Others in Humankind 10 The Ontology of the Other: The Evolutionary Basis of Human Sociality and Ethics in the Formation and Continuation of Inuit Society Keiichi Omura 11 Ancestral Spirits, Witchcraft and Phases of the Other in Everyday Life: The Case of the Bemba People of Zambia Yuko Sugiyama 12 The Face and the Other: Muslim Women Behind the Veil Ryoko Nishii 13 Morality and Instrumentality: A Practical Approach to Theorizing the Other Masakazu Tanaka Part IV: The Expanding Horizons of the Theory of Others 14 The Spirit as the Other: From the Iban Ethnography Motomitsu Uchibori 15 A History of the Distance Between Humans and Wildlife Gen Yamakoshi 16 Toward the Environmental Others: An Ethological Essay on Equilibrium and Coexistence Kaoru Adachi 17 Society as a Story : Work Sharing, Cooperative Breeding and the Evolution of Otherness Y?ji Takenoshita 18 The Turing Test in the Wild: When Non Human Things Become Others Ikuya Tokoro Epilogue--Future Agenda, Others as an Affliction: Tripartite Relationships and the Tetrahedral Model Takeo Funabiki Notes Bibliography Index

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Kaori Kawai is Professor, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

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