The origin of cultures : how individual choices make cultures change / / W. Penn Handwerker
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| Autore: |
Handwerker W. Penn
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| Titolo: |
The origin of cultures : how individual choices make cultures change / / W. Penn Handwerker
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| Pubblicazione: | London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (156 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306 |
| Soggetto topico: | Culture - Origin |
| Note generali: | First published 2009 by Left Coast Press, Inc. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 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 | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The origin of cultures |
| ISBN: | 1-315-41773-1 |
| 1-315-41772-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910798435103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Key questions in anthropology.