TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Melissa J.
TI  - Explaining culture scientifically
SN  - 9780295987897 (pbk.) :
AV  - GN357 .E99 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Seattle
PB  - University of Washington Press
KW  - Culture
KW  - Research
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Case studies
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-357) and index; Introduction; Developing a scientific paradigm for understanding culture; Melissa J. Brown --; Some kinds of causal powers that make up culture; Roy D'Andrade --; Culture in evolution : toward an integration of chimpanzee and human cultures; Christophe Boesch --; Dissent with modification : cultural evolution and social niche construction; Marcus W. Feldman --; Cultural evolution : accomplishments and future prospects; Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd --; Conditions for the spread of culturally transmitted costly punishment of sib mating; Kenichi Aoki, Yasuo Ihara, and Marcus W. Feldman --; Sexually transmitted infections as biomarkers of cultural behavior; James Holland Jones --; When culture affects behavior : a new look at kuru; William H. Durham --; When culture does not affect behavior : the structural basis of ethnic identity; Melissa J. Brown --; Cultural species; Joseph Henrich --; Culture matters : inferences from comparative behavioral experiments and evolutionary models; Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis --; Cultural evolution and uxorilocal marriage in China : a second opinion; Arthur P. Wolf --; When theory is data : coming to terms with "culture" as a way of life; Gregory Starrett --; Studying "culture" scientifically as an oxymoron : the interesting question is why people don't accept this; Robert Borofsky --; Epilogue; Future considerations; Melissa J. Brown
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