Explaining culture scientifically /
"What exactly is culture? The authors of this volume suggest that the study of one of anthropology's central questions may be a route to developing a scientific paradigm for the field. The contributors - prominent scholars in anthropology, biology, and economics - approach culture from ver...
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Table of 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.
