Continuities In Cultural Evolution

Author : Margaret Mead
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351526081

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Continuities in Cultural Evolution by Margaret Mead Pdf

Margaret Mead once said, "I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples--faraway peoples--so that Americans might better understand themselves." Continuities in Cultural Evolution is evidence of this devotion. All of Mead's efforts were intended to help others learn about themselves and work toward a more humane and socially responsible society. Scientist, writer, explorer, and teacher, Mead brought the serious work of anthropology into the public consciousness. This volume began as the Terry Lectures, given at Yale in 1957 and was not published until 1964, after extensive reworking. The time she spent on revision is evidence of the importance Mead attached to the subject: the need to develop a truly evolutionary vision of human culture and society. This was desirable in her eyes both in order to reinforce the historical dimension in our ideas about human culture, and to preserve the relevance of historical and cultural diversity to social, economic, and political action. Given the present state of academic and public discourse alike, this volume speaks to us in a language we badly need to recover.

Author : Margaret Mead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:315000017

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Continuities in Cultural Evolution. (Terry Lectures ... 1957.). by Margaret Mead Pdf

Author : Margaret Mead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1325610687

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Continuities in Cultural Evolution by Margaret Mead Pdf

Author : Margaret Mead
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351319980

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Cooperation and Competition Among Primitive Peoples by Margaret Mead Pdf

In many respects, this volume is a pioneer effort in anthropological literature. It remains firmly part of the genre of cooperative research, or "interdisciplinary research," though at the time of its original publication that phrase had yet to be coined. Additionally, this work is more theoretical in nature than a faithful anthropological record, as all the essays were written in New York City, on a low budget, and without fieldwork. The significance of these studies lies in the fact that Cooperation and Competition Among Primitive Peoples was the first attempt to think about the very complex problems of cultural character and social structure, coupled with a meticulous execution of comparative study.

Author : Andrew Whiten
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199608966

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Culture Evolves by Andrew Whiten Pdf

Culture shapes vast swathes of our lives and has allowed the human species to dominate the planet in an evolutionarily unique way. This book is unique in focusing on the evolutionary continuities in culture, providing an interdisciplinary exploration of culture, written by leading authorities from the biological and cognitive sciences.

Author : Los Angeles Robert Boyd Professor of Anthropology University of California,Davis Peter J. Richerson Professor of Environmental Science and Policy University of California
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0198040083

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The Origin and Evolution of Cultures by Los Angeles Robert Boyd Professor of Anthropology University of California,Davis Peter J. Richerson Professor of Environmental Science and Policy University of California Pdf

Oxford presents, in one convenient and coherently organized volume, 20 influential but until now relatively inaccessible articles that form the backbone of Boyd and Richerson's path-breaking work on evolution and culture. Their interdisciplinary research is based on two notions. First, that culture is crucial for understanding human behavior; unlike other organisms, socially transmitted beliefs, attitudes, and values heavily influence our behavior. Secondly, culture is part of biology: the capacity to acquire and transmit culture is a derived component of human psychology, and the contents of culture are deeply intertwined with our biology. Culture then is a pool of information, stored in the brains of the population that gets transmitted from one brain to another by social learning processes. Therefore, culture can account for both our outstanding ecological success as well as the maladaptations that characterize much of human behavior. The interest in this collection will span anthropology, psychology, economics, philosophy, and political science.

Author : Leslie A White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315418568

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The Evolution of Culture by Leslie A White Pdf

One of the major works of twentieth-century anthropological theory, written by one of the discipline’s most important, complex, and controversial figures, has not been in print for several years. Now Evolution of Culture is again available in paperback, allowing today’s generation of anthropologists new access to Leslie White’s crucial contribution to the theory of cultural evolution. A new, substantial introduction by Robert Carneiro and Burton J. Brown assess White’s historical importance and continuing influence in the discipline. White is credited with reintroducing evolution in a way that had a profound impact on our understanding of the relationship between technology, ecology, and culture in the development of civilizations. A materialist, he was particularly concerned with societies’ ability to harness energy as an indicator of progress, and his empirical analysis of this equation covers a vast historical span. Fearlessly tackling the most fundamental questions of culture and society during the cold war, White was frequently a lightning rod both inside and outside the academy. His book will provoke equally potent debates today, and is a key component of any course or reading list in anthropological or archaeological theory and cultural ecology.

Author : Davydd Greenwood
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781501719936

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The Taming of Evolution by Davydd Greenwood Pdf

The theory of evolution has clearly altered our views of the biological world, but in the study of human beings, evolutionary and preevolutionary views continue to coexist in a state of perpetual tension. The Taming of Evolution addresses the questions of how and why this is so. Davydd Greenwood offers a sustained critique of the nature/nurture debate, revealing the complexity of the relationship between science and ideology. He maintains that popular contemporary theories, most notably E. O. Wilson’s human sociobiology and Marvin Harris’s cultural materialism, represent pre-Darwinian notions overlaid by elaborate evolutionary terminology. Greenwood first details the humoral-environmental and Great Chain of Being theories that dominated Western thinking before Darwin. He systematically compares these ideas with those later influenced by Darwin’s theories, illuminating the surprising continuities between them. Greenwood suggests that it would be neither difficult nor socially dangerous to develop a genuinely evolutionary understanding of human beings, so long as we realized that we could not derive political and moral standards from the study of biological processes.

Author : Stefan Linquist
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351890144

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The Evolution of Culture by Stefan Linquist Pdf

Recent years have seen a transformation in thinking about the nature of culture. Rather than viewing culture in opposition to biology, a growing number of researchers now regard culture as subject to evolutionary processes. Recent developments in this field have shifted some of the traditional academic fault lines. Alliances are forming between researchers trained in anthropology, evolutionary biology, psychology and philosophy. Meanwhile, several distinct schools of thought have appeared which differ in their vision of what an evolutionary approach to culture should look like. This volume contains some of the most influential publications on these subjects from the past few decades. A theoretical background chapter and critical introduction identify the core issues at stake in the new study of cultural evolution. These chapters are followed by sections on each of the four dominant approaches: the phylogenetic approach, memetics, dual inheritance theory and niche construction. Following these are two chapters on closely related topics: the psychological mechanisms of culture and the existence of culture in non-human animals. Overall, this volume provides an up to date overview of some of the most exciting trends in contemporary evolutionary thought.

Author : A. Terry Rambo,Kathleen Gillogly
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780915703234

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Profiles in Cultural Evolution by A. Terry Rambo,Kathleen Gillogly Pdf

Author : Robert Boyd,Peter J. Richerson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780195165241

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The Origin and Evolution of Cultures by Robert Boyd,Peter J. Richerson Pdf

The Origin and Evolution of Cultures presents articles based on two notions. That culture is crucial for understanding human behaviour; and that culture is part of biology. Interest in this collection will span anthropology, psychology, economics, philosophy, and political science.

Author : Robert L. Carneiro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429980305

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Evolutionism In Cultural Anthropology by Robert L. Carneiro Pdf

Examines the history of evolutionism in cultural anthropology, beginning with its roots in the 19th century, through the half-century of anti-evolutionism, to its reemergence in the 1950s, and the current perspectives on it today. No other book covers the subject so fully or over such a long period of time.. Evolutionism and Cultural Anthropology traces the interaction of evolutionary thought and anthropological theory from Herbert Spencer to the twenty-first century. It is a focused examination of how the idea of evolution has continued to provide anthropology with a master principle around which a vast body of data can be organized and synthesized. Erudite and readable, and quoting extensively from early theorists (such as Edward Tylor, Lewis Henry Morgan, John McLennan, Henry Maine, and James Frazer) so that the reader might judge them on the basis of their own words, Evolutionism and Cultural Anthropology is useful reading for courses in anthropological theory and the history of anthropology. 0813337666 Evolutionism in Cultural Anthropology : a Critical History

Author : Lee Cronk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429965463

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That Complex Whole by Lee Cronk Pdf

Our understanding of the evolution of human behavior has grown enormously over the past few decades, and an increasing number of behavioral and social scientists are making use of evolutionary theory in their work to shed light on issues ranging from marriage and parenting to the study of mental illness. The success of this research program is thre

Author : Tim Lewens
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199674183

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Cultural Evolution by Tim Lewens Pdf

This title exposes and evaluates a set of conceptual disputes concerning what we might mean by culture, and how we should go about accounting for it. Its particular focus is a set of evolutionary approaches to the genesis of the human capacity for culture, to subsequent cultural change, and to the ways in which genetic and cultural change interact, or 'co-evolve'. The book as a whole argues that there is little realistic hope that the social sciences might become unified around an evolutionary synthesis. Instead the defence of evolutionary approaches to culture must be more modest in scope

Author : Michael Wheeler,John M. Ziman,Margaret A. Boden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0197262627

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The Evolution of Cultural Entities by Michael Wheeler,John M. Ziman,Margaret A. Boden Pdf

Ever since Darwin, scholars have noted that cultural entities such as languages, laws and theories seem to evolve through variation, selection and replication. These essays consider whether this comparison is just a metaphor.