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COE, KATHRYN. 2003. The Ancestress Hypothesis: Visual Art as Adaptation. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Craig T. Palmer from the Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado has written a review of Coe's book: "This book is one of a growing number of attempts to provide Darwinian explanations for such aspects of human culture as religion, literature, and in this case, visual art. However, it is much more than simply an evolutionary explanation of visual art because the "ancestress hypothesis" is a much broader concept. It has far reaching implications for not only many aspects of human physiology and culture, but also evolutionary theory itself. Many readers will probably find the book less than convincing in some of its arguments about these more general issues. However, its main thesis about visual art is so cogently argued and thoroughly supported with evidence, that the possible implications for the more general issues will be hard to ignore. [...]" The review has been published in Human Nature Review 2003 Volume 3: 254-256 (7 May) and can be read in full here. via Anthro-L

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SENGUPTA, GAUTAM AND SHEENA PANJA (Eds.). 2003. Archaeology of Eastern India: New Perspectives. Kolkata: Centre for Archaeological Studies & Training, Eastern India. [viii, 623 p. ills. (partly col.). maps. 23 cm. List Price: $ 40.00, ISBN: 8190149903]

For more books on India see K. K. Agencies, the "online store for Indian publications". via Anthro-L

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Emeritus Professor of Computer Sciences and Linguistics Sheldon Klein shares some of his work with us: The rather hard to find revised and expanded French language version of "Modelling Propp and Lévi-Strauss in a Meta-symbolic Simulation System." in Patterns in Oral Literature, edited by H. Jason & D. Segal, World Anthropology Series, The Hague: Mouton, 1977, is now available for downloading as a .pdf file, with a new Lévi-Strauss model, a revised Propp model, and 60 new computer generated folktales. The full program is included, and is extensively commented with references to specific pages in V. Propp's "Morphology of the Folktale", University of Texas Press, 1968. via Anthro-L

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