Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution

Zusatztext "The collection is a good one for advanced students or professionals who already have a grasp of the basics of evolutionary anthropology." Informationen zum Autor Stephen Shennan is Professor of Theoretical Archaeology at University College London and Director of its Institute of Archaeology. He is the author or coauthor of many books! including Genes! Memes! and Human History ! and has edited or coedited many additional volumes! including The Evolution of Cultural Diversity. Klappentext “Archaeological data are uniquely suited to testing models of cultural evolution. This volume provides an excellent summary of the state of the art in this new field.”—Robert Boyd, coauthor of Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution Zusammenfassung This volume offers an integrative approach to the application of evolutionary theory in studies of cultural transmission and social evolution and reveals the enormous range of ways in which Darwinian ideas can lead to productive empirical research, the touchstone of any worthwhile theoretical perspective. While many recent works on cultural evolution adopt a specific theoretical framework, such as dual inheritance theory or human behavioral ecology, Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution emphasizes empirical analysis and includes authors who employ a range of backgrounds and methods to address aspects of culture from an evolutionary perspective. Editor Stephen Shennan has assembled archaeologists, evolutionary theorists, and ethnographers, whose essays cover a broad range of time periods, localities, cultural groups, and artifacts.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Stephen Shennan, Stephen (EDT) Shennan
• Con la collaborazione di: Stephen Shennan (Editore), Shennan Stephen (Editore)
• Editore: University Of California Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.03.2009
• EAN: 9780520255999
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25599-9
• Pagine: 352
• Serie: Origins of Human Behavior and Culture; Origins of Human Behavior and; Origins of Human Behavior and Culture
• Categorie: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Altro; Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Evolution / Evolutionary biology