Understanding cultural transmission in anthropology : a critical synthesis /: a critical synthesis. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Roy Ellen, Stephen J. Lycett and Sarah E. Johns.
• Editors: Ellen, R. F, 1947-; Lycett, Stephen J; Johns, Sarah E
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 380 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 599.93/8; Human evolution; Social evolution; Social systems; Communication and culture; Intercultural communication; Ethnobiology; Traditional ecological knowledge; NATURE -- Animals -- Mammals; SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Mammals; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General; Communication and culture; Ethnobiology; Human evolution; Intercultural communication; Social evolution; Social systems; Traditional ecological knowledge; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857459947; 0857459945; 9781782380726; 1782380728
• Related ISBNs: 9780857459930; 0857459937; 9781782380719; 178238071X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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