Explaining culture scientifically
By: edited by Melissa J. Brown.
Contributors: Brown, Melissa J.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9780295987897
Subjects: Culture -- Research; Ethnology -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Description: "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 very different theoretical and methodological perspectives, through studies grounded in fieldwork, surveys, demography, and other empirical data. From humans to chimpanzees, from Taiwan to New Guinea, from cannibalism to marriage patterns, this volume directly addresses the challenges of explaining culture scientifically. The evolutionary paradigm lends itself particularly well to the question of culture; in these essays, different modes of inheritance - genetic, cultural, ecological, and structural - illustrate evolutionary patterns in a variety of settings." "Explaining Culture Scientifically is necessary reading for scholars and students in anthropology and related disciplines."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-357) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction,; title: Introduction, -- Melissa J. Brown; title: Introduction, -- Melissa J. Brown -- Roy D'Andrade; title: Introduction, -- Melissa J. Brown -- Roy D'Andrade -- Christophe Boesch; title: Introduction, -- Melissa J. Brown -- Roy D'Andrade -- Christophe Boesch -- Marcus W. Feldman; title: Introduction, -- Melissa J. Brown -- Roy D'Andrade -- Christophe Boesch -- Marcus W. Feldman -- Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd; title: Introduction, -- Melissa J. Brown -- Roy D'Andrade -- Christophe Boesch -- Marcus W. Feldman -- Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd -- Kenichi Aoki, Yasuo Ihara, and Marcus W. Feldman; title: Introduction, -- Melissa J. Brown -- Roy D'Andrade -- Christophe Boesch -- Marcus W. Feldman -- Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd -- Kenichi Aoki, Yasuo Ihara, and Marcus W. Feldman -- James Holland Jones; title: Introduction, -- Melissa J. Brown -- Roy D'Andrade -- Christophe Boesch -- Marcus W. Feldman -- Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd -- Kenichi Aoki, Yasuo Ihara, and Marcus W. Feldman -- James Holland Jones -- William H. Durham; title: Introduction, -- Melissa J. Brown -- Roy D'Andrade -- Christophe Boesch -- Marcus W. Feldman -- Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd -- Kenichi Aoki, Yasuo Ihara, and Marcus W. Feldman -- James Holland Jones -- William H. Durham -- Melissa J. Brown; title: Introduction, -- Melissa J. Brown -- Roy D'Andrade -- Christophe Boesch -- Marcus W. Feldman -- Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd -- Kenichi Aoki, Yasuo Ihara, and Marcus W. Feldman -- James Holland Jones -- William H. Durham -- Melissa J. Brown -- Joseph Henrich; title: Introduction, -- Melissa J. Brown -- Roy D'Andrade -- Christophe Boesch -- Marcus W. Feldman -- Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd -- Kenichi Aoki, Yasuo Ihara, and Marcus W. Feldman -- James Holland Jones -- William H. Durham -- Melissa J. Brown -- Joseph Henrich -- Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis; title: Introduction, -- Melissa J. Brown -- Roy D'Andrade -- Christophe Boesch -- Marcus W. Feldman -- Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd -- Kenichi Aoki, Yasuo Ihara, and Marcus W. Feldman -- James Holland Jones -- William H. Durham -- Melissa J. Brown -- Joseph Henrich -- Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis -- Arthur P. Wolf; title: Introduction, -- Melissa J. Brown -- Roy D'Andrade -- Christophe Boesch -- Marcus W. Feldman -- Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd -- Kenichi Aoki, Yasuo Ihara, and Marcus W. Feldman -- James Holland Jones -- William H. Durham -- Melissa J. Brown -- Joseph Henrich -- Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis -- Arthur P. Wolf -- Gregory Starrett; title: Introduction, -- Melissa J. Brown -- Roy D'Andrade -- Christophe Boesch -- Marcus W. Feldman -- Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd -- Kenichi Aoki, Yasuo Ihara, and Marcus W. Feldman -- James Holland Jones -- William H. Durham -- Melissa J. Brown -- Joseph Henrich -- Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis -- Arthur P. Wolf -- Gregory Starrett -- Robert Borofsky -- Epilogue,; title: Introduction,-- Melissa J. Brown-- Roy D'Andrade-- Christophe Boesch-- Marcus W. Feldman-- Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd-- Kenichi Aoki, Yasuo Ihara, and Marcus W. Feldman-- James Holland Jones-- William H. Durham-- Melissa J. Brown-- Joseph Henrich-- Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis-- Arthur P. Wolf-- Gregory Starrett-- Robert Borofsky-- Epilogue,-- Melissa J. Brown.