[lbo-talk] Sociality and culture ( was ...)

[Charles Brown]

Charles Brown wrote:
>  Kinship is the organization of relationships between living people based
>on their relationships to dead ancestors...
>...Kinship is central to culture. Chimps don't have kinship.

So, kinship being defined as relationship among *people*, chimps
being defined as something other than *people*, and culture having 
*kinship* as its central feature, it follows with uroboric 
circularity that chimps have no *culture*.

Shane Mage

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CB; No that is not what I mean. Just substitute " living individual members
of the species", "dead members of the species" for "people".  Kinship is the
organization of relationships betweeen living members of the species based
on their relationships to dead generations of the species.  If individual
chimps significantl related to each other in this way , they would have
culture or original culture.