Understanding Cultural Transmission in Anthropology : a Critical Synthesis.
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...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction : on the concept of cultural transmission / Roy Ellen and Michael D. Fischer -- What animals other than primates can tell us about human cultural transmission / Kevin Laland, Alice Cowie and Tom Morgan -- Culture in non-human primates : definitions and evidence / Tatyana Humle and Nicholas E. Newton-Fisher -- Cultural transmission theory and fossil hominin behaviour : a discussion of epistemological and methodological strengths / Stephen J. Lycett -- Studying cultural transmission within an interdisciplinary cultural evolutionary framework / Alex Mesoudi -- Do transmission isolatin mechanisms (TRIMS) influence cultural evolution? : evidence from patterns of textile diversity within and between Iranian tribal groups / Jamshid J. Tehrani and Mark Collard -- Co-evolution between bentwood box tradtions and languages on the Pacific Northwest Coast / Sean O'Neill -- The transmission of ethnobotanical knowledge and skills among Tsimane' in the Bolivian Amazon / Victoria Reyes-García, James Broesch and TAPS Bolivian Study Team -- Processual perspectives on traditional environmental knowledge : continuity, erosion, transformation, innovation / Stanford Zent -- Transmitting Penan basketry knowledge and practice / Rajindra K. Puri -- Plant exchange and social performance : implications for knowledge transfer in British allotments / Simon Platten -- Thinking like a cheese : towards an ecological understanding of the reproduction of knowledge in contemporary Asian cheese making / Harry G. West -- Lineages of cultural transmission / Stephen Shennan. | |
| 520 | |a 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 understood by the phrase and how it might best be studied is highly contested. This book brings together contributions that reflect the current diversity of approaches - from the fields of biology, primatology, palaeoanthropology, psychology, social anthropology, ethnobiology, and archaeology - to examine social a. | ||
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