Explaining Culture

Explaining Culture
Author :
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages : 184
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0631200452
ISBN-13 : 9780631200451
Rating : 4/5 (451 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Explaining Culture by : Dan Sperber

Download or read book Explaining Culture written by Dan Sperber and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1996-11-06 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideas, Dan Sperber argues, may be contagious. They may invade whole populations. In the process, the people, their environment, and the ideas themselves are being transformed. To explain culture is to describe the causes and the effects of this contagion of ideas. This book will be read by all those with an interest in the impact of the cognitive revolution on our understanding of culture.


Explaining Culture Related Books

Explaining Culture
Language: en
Pages: 164
Authors: Loren Demerath
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-15 - Publisher: Lexington Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This provocative book offers a new theory of culture with a unique focus on our aesthetic response to order and meaningfulness.
Explaining Culture Scientifically
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: Melissa J. Brown
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-01 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

What exactly is culture? The authors of this volume suggest that the study of one of anthropology's central questions may be a route to developing a scientific
Explaining Culture
Language: en
Pages: 184
Authors: Dan Sperber
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-11-06 - Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Ideas, Dan Sperber argues, may be contagious. They may invade whole populations. In the process, the people, their environment, and the ideas themselves are bei
Explaining Traditions
Language: en
Pages: 693
Authors: Simon J. Bronner
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-26 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Why do humans hold onto traditions? Many pundits predicted that modernization and the rise of a mass culture would displace traditions, especially in America, b
Cultural Evolution
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: Alex Mesoudi
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-30 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Charles Darwin changed the course of scientific thinking by showing how evolution accounts for the stunning diversity and biological complexity of life on earth