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- Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: University of California Press
- Series: Origins of Human Behavior and Culture
summary
This volume offers an integrative approach to the application of evolutionary theory in studies of cultural transmission and social evolution and reveals the enormous range of ways in which Darwinian ideas can lead to productive empirical research, the touchstone of any worthwhile theoretical perspective. While many recent works on cultural evolution adopt a specific theoretical framework, such as dual inheritance theory or human behavioral ecology, Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution emphasizes empirical analysis and includes authors who employ a range of backgrounds and methods to address aspects of culture from an evolutionary perspective. Editor Stephen Shennan has assembled archaeologists, evolutionary theorists, and ethnographers, whose essays cover a broad range of time periods, localities, cultural groups, and artifacts.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. 2-5
- Contents, Acknowledgments
- pp. v-viii
- Understanding Cultural Transmission
- pp. 19-20
- Testing Evolutionary Hypotheses
- pp. 145-146
- 11. Innovation Diffusion and Traveling Waves
- pp. 163-174
- Social Evolution
- List of Contributors /
- pp. 329-330
- Production Notes
- pp. 351-353
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520943360
Related ISBN(s)
9780520255999
MARC Record
OCLC
592756173
Pages
352
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No