Meaning of Tarzanist | Babel Free

Definitions

An anthropologist who depicts early human evolution in terms of aggressive male hunters and passive baby-carrying women.

Examples

“The Tarzanists suggest that bipedalism enabled this ape to race after game while carrying weapons — in the first instance, presumably pebbles.”

“As for social structure, Morgan argues, the “Tarzanists,” as she calls them, conveniently overlook studies of primates that do not fit their model.”

“Pouring gentle, good-humoured scorn on what she calls the ‘Tarzanist-type’ theories of ‘Man the Hunter’, she nonetheless makes some firm points about the origin and development of the human family.”

“[T]his is still the case for extant gatherer—hunter groups, the Tarzanist fantasies of certain pop anthropologists notwithstanding..”

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