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Explaining culture scientifically / edited by Melissa J. Brown.
Publication details: Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2008.Description: ix, 387 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780295987897 (pbk.) :
- 0295987898 (pbk.) :
- GN357 .E99 2008
Contents:
Introduction, Developing a scientific paradigm for understanding culture / Melissa J. Brown -- Some kinds of causal powers that make up culture / Roy D'Andrade -- Culture in evolution : toward an integration of chimpanzee and human cultures / Christophe Boesch -- Dissent with modification : cultural evolution and social niche construction / Marcus W. Feldman -- Cultural evolution : accomplishments and future prospects / Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd -- Conditions for the spread of culturally transmitted costly punishment of sib mating / Kenichi Aoki, Yasuo Ihara, and Marcus W. Feldman -- Sexually transmitted infections as biomarkers of cultural behavior / James Holland Jones -- When culture affects behavior : a new look at kuru / William H. Durham -- When culture does not affect behavior : the structural basis of ethnic identity / Melissa J. Brown -- Cultural species / Joseph Henrich -- Culture matters : inferences from comparative behavioral experiments and evolutionary models / Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis -- Cultural evolution and uxorilocal marriage in China : a second opinion / Arthur P. Wolf -- When theory is data : coming to terms with "culture" as a way of life / Gregory Starrett -- Studying "culture" scientifically as an oxymoron : the interesting question is why people don't accept this / Robert Borofsky -- Epilogue, Future considerations / Melissa J. Brown.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | GN 357 .E99 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5051258 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-357) and index.
Introduction, Developing a scientific paradigm for understanding culture / Melissa J. Brown -- Some kinds of causal powers that make up culture / Roy D'Andrade -- Culture in evolution : toward an integration of chimpanzee and human cultures / Christophe Boesch -- Dissent with modification : cultural evolution and social niche construction / Marcus W. Feldman -- Cultural evolution : accomplishments and future prospects / Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd -- Conditions for the spread of culturally transmitted costly punishment of sib mating / Kenichi Aoki, Yasuo Ihara, and Marcus W. Feldman -- Sexually transmitted infections as biomarkers of cultural behavior / James Holland Jones -- When culture affects behavior : a new look at kuru / William H. Durham -- When culture does not affect behavior : the structural basis of ethnic identity / Melissa J. Brown -- Cultural species / Joseph Henrich -- Culture matters : inferences from comparative behavioral experiments and evolutionary models / Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis -- Cultural evolution and uxorilocal marriage in China : a second opinion / Arthur P. Wolf -- When theory is data : coming to terms with "culture" as a way of life / Gregory Starrett -- Studying "culture" scientifically as an oxymoron : the interesting question is why people don't accept this / Robert Borofsky -- Epilogue, Future considerations / Melissa J. Brown.
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