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Title:

Understanding cultural transmission in anthropology : a critical synthesis / edited by Roy Ellen, Stephen J. Lycett and Sarah E. Johns.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Berghahn,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xii, 380 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Human evolution.
Social evolution.
Social systems.
Communication and culture.
Intercultural communication.
Ethnobiology.
Traditional ecological knowledge.

Other Authors:

Ellen, R. F., 1947- editor of compilation.
Lycett, Stephen J. editor of compilation.
Johns, Sarah E. editor of compilation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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-Garc©Ưa, 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 artisan cheese making / Harry G. West -- Lineages of cultural transmission / Stephen Shennan.

Series:

Methodology and history in anthropology ; volume 26

ISBN:

178238071X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781782380719 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0857459937 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780857459930 (hardback : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)828333947

LCCN:

2013005578

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)