The Emergence of Culture
The Evolution of a Uniquely Human Way of Life
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book describes the emergent nature of human culture, based on the human ability to create and pass on social codes through instruction and example. It proposes hypotheses to explain how a phenomenon that is potentially maladaptive for individuals could...
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This book describes the emergent nature of human culture, based on the human ability to create and pass on social codes through instruction and example. It proposes hypotheses to explain how a phenomenon that is potentially maladaptive for individuals could have evolved, and to explain why culture plays such a pervasive role in human life. It then reviews the primatological, fossil, and archaeological data to test these hypotheses.
This book describes the emergent nature of human culture, based on the human ability to create and pass on social codes through instruction and example. It proposes hypotheses to explain how a phenomenon that is potentially maladaptive for individuals could have evolved, and to explain why culture plays such a pervasive role in human life. It then reviews the primatological, fossil, and archaeological data to test these hypotheses.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Emergence of Culture “
- Introduction and Preview- How is Human Culture Different?
- Why does Culture Exist?
- The Origins of Socially Constructed Coding
- The Elaboration of Culture
- Conclusions
- Appendix
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Philip Chase
- 2010, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006, X, 217 Seiten, Maße: 15,5 x 23,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 1441940286
- ISBN-13: 9781441940285
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
From the reviews: " The book by Philip Chase is a very original, thought-stimulating....and thanks to the authors's ability to explain complex subjects in simple words, his work may be interesting and useful reading not only for specialists...but also for everybody interested in general problems of human cultural and biological prehistory....this is a very important contributrion to the study of human culture, that deserves to be read by everybody who considers her(him)self an anthropologist."
PaleoAnthropology, 2006: 95-97
"This is a ... provocative volume about a very big topic - how humans are fundamentally unique in the way culture is generated and how the evolution of this adaptation occured. ... Chase provides readers with a thorough exposition of a view of culture that then serves as the basis for an evaluation of the development of human thought and action. ... This book will generate much stimulating discussion in advanced anthropology seminars." (Lynne A. Schepartz, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Vol. 17 (1), 2007)
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