03314oam 2200541I 450 991079843510332120230808194051.01-315-41773-11-315-41772-310.4324/9781315417738 (CKB)3710000000742591(EBL)4578653(SSID)ssj0001691492(PQKBManifestationID)16538652(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001691492(PQKBWorkID)13541247(PQKB)25078331(MiAaPQ)EBC4578653(OCoLC)956466498(EXLCZ)99371000000074259120180706e20162009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe origin of cultures how individual choices make cultures change /W. Penn HandwerkerLondon :Routledge,2016.1 online resource (156 p.)Key Questions in Anthropology : Little Books on Big IdeasFirst published 2009 by Left Coast Press, Inc.1-59874-067-9 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.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 Bibliography3. 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 ChangeSelected 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 Distribution of Power Elicits New Cultural Assumptions; Selected Bibliography; 6. Lessons Learned; A Thought Experiment; People Do Violence to Defend Themselves; More Often than Not, Different Does Mean Better; How New Things Acquire Immense Power; What about the Future?; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the AuthorKey questions in anthropology.CultureOriginCultureOrigin.306Handwerker W. Penn.1510374MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910798435103321The origin of cultures3742980UNINA