LEADER 03314oam 2200541I 450 001 9910798435103321 005 20230808194051.0 010 $a1-315-41773-1 010 $a1-315-41772-3 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315417738 035 $a(CKB)3710000000742591 035 $a(EBL)4578653 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001691492 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16538652 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001691492 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)13541247 035 $a(PQKB)25078331 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4578653 035 $a(OCoLC)956466498 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000742591 100 $a20180706e20162009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe origin of cultures $ehow individual choices make cultures change /$fW. Penn Handwerker 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (156 p.) 225 1 $aKey Questions in Anthropology : Little Books on Big Ideas 300 $aFirst published 2009 by Left Coast Press, Inc. 311 $a1-59874-067-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $a3. 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 327 $aSelected Bibliography5. Consequences Depend on the Distribution of Power; Consequences Elicit Cultural Assumptions; A Fish Rots from the Head; Lower Level Power Concentrations Also Unleash Violence; Subordinates Find Ways to Empower Themselves; A Shift in the Distribution of Power Elicits New Cultural Assumptions; Selected Bibliography; 6. Lessons Learned; A Thought Experiment; People Do Violence to Defend Themselves; More Often than Not, Different Does Mean Better; How New Things Acquire Immense Power; What about the Future?; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author 410 0$aKey questions in anthropology. 606 $aCulture$xOrigin 615 0$aCulture$xOrigin. 676 $a306 700 $aHandwerker$b W. Penn.$01510374 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798435103321 996 $aThe origin of cultures$93742980 997 $aUNINA