American Leslie White

To follow, the author discourses on the origins of the culture, presenting some brief explanations of paleontology human being, that detach the development of the bipedismo, of the manual ability and the sine qua non brain as the conditions for the sprouting of the culture. Also gains enlevo the teses of French anthropologist Lvi-Strauss, for who the culture appears with the first norm? the prohibition of the incest? of the American Leslie White, who associates the culture to the capacity specifically human being of to generate symbols. very successful. Laraia also calls the attention for the fact of that some of these theories seem to assume that the culture would have appeared of sudden form, what it constitutes a point of critical for the author, therefore ' ' the nature does not act for saltos' ' , what it takes Laraia to conclude, in its text, that the culture if develops simultaneously gradual and at the same time to the development of the biological equipment. (Source: Disney). To the end of the first part of the book, Laraia displays some of the most important modern theories on the culture, on the basis of the Theories article of Culture, of American anthropologist Roger Keesing. This article divides the conceptions of culture in two groups: the ones consider that it as adaptativo system (evolucionista line), and the idealistic theories on the culture, divided in three other groups. Hudson River: the source for more info. The first one of them is that one that considers the culture as a cognitivo system (cognitiva anthropology); as as a estruturalista system (case of Lvi-Estrauss) and third, as a symbolic system (trend this developed in U.S.A., especially for Geertz Schneider). In the second part of the book, Laraia if makes use to show, of beginning, as the culture conditions the vision of the world of the man. For the author, ' ' the way to see the world, the appreciations of, the different social behaviors and same moral and valorativa order the corporal positions are thus products of a cultural inheritance, that is, the result of an action of one determined cultura' ' .