Understanding Cultural Transmission in Anthropology : : A Critical Synthesis /

Understanding Cultural Transmission in Anthropology : : A Critical Synthesis / / ed. by Stephen J. Lycett, Roy Ellen, Sarah E. Johns.

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The concept of "cultural transmission" is central to much contemporary anthropological theory, since successful human reproduction through social systems is essential for effective survival and for enhancing the adaptiveness of individual humans and local populations. Yet, what is understo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Broesch, James,
Collard, Mark,
Cowie, Alice,
Ellen, Roy,
Fischer, Michael D.,
Humle, Tatyana,
Laland, Kevin,
Lycett, Stephen J.,
Mesoudi, Alex,
Morgan, Tom,
Newton-Fisher, Nicholas E.,
O’Neill, Sean,
Platten, Simon,
Puri, Rajindra K.,
Reyes-García, Victoria,
Shennan, Stephen,
Tehrani, Jamshid J.,
West, Harry G.,
Zent, Stanford,
HerausgeberIn:
Ellen, Roy,
Johns, Sarah E.,
Lycett, Stephen J.,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Methodology & History in Anthropology ; 26
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Preface
  • Introduction: On the Concept of Cultural Transmission
  • Chapter 1 What Animals other than Primates can tell us about Human Cultural Transmission
  • Chapter 2 Culture in Non-human Primates: Definitions and Evidence
  • Chapter 3 Cultural Transmission Theory and Fossil Hominin Behaviour: A Discuss ion of Epistemological
  • Chapter 4 Studying Cultural Transmission with in an Interdisciplinary Cultural Evolutionary Framework
  • Chapter 5 Do Transmission Isolating Mechanisms (TRIMS) Influence Cultural Evolution ? Evidence from Patterns of Textile Diversity
  • Chapter 6 Co-evolution between Bentwood Box Traditions and Languages on the Pacific Northwest Coast
  • Chapter 7 The Transmission of Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Skills among Tsimane’ in the Bolivian Amazon
  • Chapter 8 Processual Perspectives on Traditional Environmental Knowledge: Continuity, Erosion, Transformation, Innovation
  • Chapter 9 Transmitting Penan Basketry Knowledge and Practice
  • Chapter 10 Plant Exchange and Social Performance: Implications for Knowledge Transfer in British Allotments
  • Chapter 11 Thinking Like a Cheese: Towards an Ecological Understanding of the Reproduction of Knowledge in Contemporary Artisan Cheese Making
  • Chapter 12 Lineages of Cultural Transmission
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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