Lyle B Steadman
Biographic Data
| ID | 82505 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lyle B Steadman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lyle B |
| FAMILY NAME | Steadman |
| SIGNATURE | STEADMAN L B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Reconceptualizing the Human Social Niche: How It Came to Exist and How It Is Changing
In this paper we present a reconceptualization of the social dimension of the human niche and the evolutionary process that brought it into existence. We agree with many other evolutionary approaches that a key aspect of the human niche is a social environment consisting primarily of cooperating and altruistic individuals, not a Hobbesian social environment of "war of all against all." However, in contrast to the conception of this social environ…
Supernatural and Natural Selection: Religion and Evolutionary Success
Spanning many different epochs and varieties of religious experience, this book develops a new approach to religion and its role in human history. The authors look across a range of religious phenomena-from ancestor worship to totemism, shamanism, and worldwide modern religions-to offer a new explanation of the evolutionary success of religious behaviors. Their book is more empirical and verifiable than most previous books on evolution and religi…
Toward a Testable Definition of Religious Behavior
Supernatural and Natural Selection: Religion and Evolutionary Success
Australian kinship
There is a strange custom in Australia, among the Aborigines. A man and his wife give their five-year-old daughter to a young boy to be the little boy’s future mother-in-law. From that moment on, throughout their lives, the boy will call the girl "mother-in-law", will show her extreme respect, will never be familiar with her, and will send her gifts of meat when he’s successful in hunting. Thirty or forty years later, when they have grown up, the…
Commentary on “Restaging the Will to Believe”
More Kin: An Effect of the Tradition of Marriage
Kinship has often been referred to as the heart of anthropology because societies are woven together by genealogical ties. In this paper we present a general model of the effect of the tradition of marriage on the potential number of individuals that can be identified as kin. The exact amount of increase in the number identifiable kin depends on demographic variables, but it will always be greater than the mere doubling of kin that might be first…
Human kinship as a descendant-leaving strategy: A solution to an evolutionary puzzle
The Universality of Ancestor Worship
A professional malpractice of anthropologists to exaggerate exotic character of other (Bloch 1977:285) has been detrimental to study of cultural universals. This highly regrettable because universals not only exist but are important to any broad conception of task of anthropology (Brown 1991:5). Further, in anthropological study of indigenous religions, a focus on differences has caused an apparently universal aspect of religion to be overlooked:…
The human breast and the ancestral reproductive cycle: A preliminary inquiry into breast cancer etiology
The Killing of Witches1
Kuru and Cannibalism
Kuru: Early Letters and Field-Notes from the Collection of D. Carleton Gajdusek. Judith Farquhar and D. Carleton Gajdusek, eds
Ethnology: Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands. Shirley Lindenbaum
Cannibal Witches in the Hewa
On The Sociocentric/Egocentric Status Dichotomy
The Universality of Ancestor Worship
A professional malpractice of anthropologists to exaggerate exotic character of other (Bloch 1977:285) has been detrimental to study of cultural universals. This highly regrettable because universals not only exist but are important to any broad conception of task of anthropology (Brown 1991:5). Further, in anthropological study of indigenous religions, a focus on differences has caused an apparently universal aspect of religion to be overlooked:…
Human kinship as a descendant-leaving strategy: A solution to an evolutionary puzzle
Kuru and Cannibalism
Kuru: Early Letters and Field-Notes from the Collection of D. Carleton Gajdusek. Judith Farquhar and D. Carleton Gajdusek, eds
Reconceptualizing the Human Social Niche: How It Came to Exist and How It Is Changing
In this paper we present a reconceptualization of the social dimension of the human niche and the evolutionary process that brought it into existence. We agree with many other evolutionary approaches that a key aspect of the human niche is a social environment consisting primarily of cooperating and altruistic individuals, not a Hobbesian social environment of "war of all against all." However, in contrast to the conception of this social environ…
More Kin: An Effect of the Tradition of Marriage
Kinship has often been referred to as the heart of anthropology because societies are woven together by genealogical ties. In this paper we present a general model of the effect of the tradition of marriage on the potential number of individuals that can be identified as kin. The exact amount of increase in the number identifiable kin depends on demographic variables, but it will always be greater than the mere doubling of kin that might be first…
Cannibal Witches in the Hewa
On The Sociocentric/Egocentric Status Dichotomy
Ethnology: Kuru Sorcery: Disease and Danger in the New Guinea Highlands. Shirley Lindenbaum
Kuru and Cannibalism
Kuru: Early Letters and Field-Notes from the Collection of D. Carleton Gajdusek. Judith Farquhar and D. Carleton Gajdusek, eds
The Killing of Witches1
The human breast and the ancestral reproductive cycle: A preliminary inquiry into breast cancer etiology
The Universality of Ancestor Worship
A professional malpractice of anthropologists to exaggerate exotic character of other (Bloch 1977:285) has been detrimental to study of cultural universals. This highly regrettable because universals not only exist but are important to any broad conception of task of anthropology (Brown 1991:5). Further, in anthropological study of indigenous religions, a focus on differences has caused an apparently universal aspect of religion to be overlooked:…
Human kinship as a descendant-leaving strategy: A solution to an evolutionary puzzle
Australian kinship
There is a strange custom in Australia, among the Aborigines. A man and his wife give their five-year-old daughter to a young boy to be the little boy’s future mother-in-law. From that moment on, throughout their lives, the boy will call the girl "mother-in-law", will show her extreme respect, will never be familiar with her, and will send her gifts of meat when he’s successful in hunting. Thirty or forty years later, when they have grown up, the…
Commentary on “Restaging the Will to Believe”
More Kin: An Effect of the Tradition of Marriage
Kinship has often been referred to as the heart of anthropology because societies are woven together by genealogical ties. In this paper we present a general model of the effect of the tradition of marriage on the potential number of individuals that can be identified as kin. The exact amount of increase in the number identifiable kin depends on demographic variables, but it will always be greater than the mere doubling of kin that might be first…
Supernatural and Natural Selection: Religion and Evolutionary Success
Toward a Testable Definition of Religious Behavior
Supernatural and Natural Selection: Religion and Evolutionary Success
Spanning many different epochs and varieties of religious experience, this book develops a new approach to religion and its role in human history. The authors look across a range of religious phenomena-from ancestor worship to totemism, shamanism, and worldwide modern religions-to offer a new explanation of the evolutionary success of religious behaviors. Their book is more empirical and verifiable than most previous books on evolution and religi…
Reconceptualizing the Human Social Niche: How It Came to Exist and How It Is Changing
In this paper we present a reconceptualization of the social dimension of the human niche and the evolutionary process that brought it into existence. We agree with many other evolutionary approaches that a key aspect of the human niche is a social environment consisting primarily of cooperating and altruistic individuals, not a Hobbesian social environment of "war of all against all." However, in contrast to the conception of this social environ…
History (10 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Biology (4 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (4 works) · Genealogy (4 works)