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Handwerker W. Penn |
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The origin of cultures : how individual choices make cultures change / / W. Penn Handwerker |
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London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
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1-315-41773-1 |
1-315-41772-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (156 p.) |
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Key Questions in Anthropology : Little Books on Big Ideas |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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First published 2009 by Left Coast Press, Inc. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. The Puzzle; What's This Thing Culture?; Directional Change in Productivity; Revolutions Produce Qualitative Change; Names Aren't Cultures; Many Cultures Intersect to Make a Person; A Thing, Sui Generis; Galton's Problem; The Argument in This Book; Selected Bibliography; 2. What Makes a Door?; What Exists Now Shapes What Comes Next; New Things Come from Old Things; What Exists Now Could Not Exist Without What Went Before; Why Cultures Must Evolve, Unexpectedly; What Sets Us Apart?; Selected Bibliography |
3. Sensory Fields and Cultural OutputsDifferent Experiences Produce Different Cultures; Sensory Isolation and Information Flow; We Take Our Cultures with Us; We Learn from Our Neighbors; Information Volume Regulates How Much We Learn; Two Rules for Cultural Design; Cultural Dynamics; Selected Bibliography; 4. Why We Don't Learn What We Could; Why We Tell Good from Bad; Winnowing the Good from the Bad; Winnowing Makes for Incremental Change; How We Tell Good from Bad; What This Means; What Makes Consequences Change?; Cultural Evolution Shifts Course when Consequences Change |
Selected Bibliography5. Consequences Depend on the Distribution of Power; Consequences Elicit Cultural Assumptions; A Fish Rots from the Head; Lower Level Power Concentrations Also Unleash Violence; Subordinates Find Ways to Empower Themselves; A Shift in the |
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