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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0190210508
ISBN-13
9780190210502
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219306497
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
How Traditions Live and Die
Subject
Sociology / General, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Linguistics / General
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Philosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science
Series
Foundations of Human Interaction Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
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0.9 in
Item Weight
14.9 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6.1 in
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Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2015-013931
Reviews
"Morin has been at the forefront of evolutionary anthropologists of a new kind for a decade... Morin concentrates on the possible mechanisms of the transmission of cultural patterns, and the ways they may stabilize. The entire book is written in a very appealing essayistic style, while at the same time facing serious issues with a deep conceptual analysis of the recent literature...The approach of Morin is certainly a very serious proposal to relate cultural traditions and evolution. Its emphasis of finding the keys in the population of people and ideas, rather than simply in genes, is worthy of attention both of evolutionary psychologists, and for the researchers of many cultural disciplines."--Evolutionary Psychological Science, The entire book is written in a very appealing essayistic style, while at the same time facing serious issues with a deep conceptual analysis of the recent literature ... The approach of Morin is certainly a very serious proposal to relate cultural traditions and evolution. Its emphasis of finding the keys in the population of people and ideas, rather than simply in genes, is worthy of attention both of evolutionary psychologists, and for the researchers of manycultural disciplines., "Morin has been at the forefront of evolutionary anthropologists of a new kind for a decade... Morin concentrates on the possible mechanisms of the transmission of cultural patterns, and the ways they may stabilize. The entire book is written in a very appealing essayistic style, while at the same time facing serious issues with a deep conceptual analysis of the recent literature...The approach of Morin is certainly a very serious proposal to relate culturaltraditions and evolution. Its emphasis of finding the keys in the population of people and ideas, rather than simply in genes, is worthy of attention both of evolutionary psychologists, and for theresearchers of many cultural disciplines."--Evolutionary Psychological Science
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
306
Table Of Content
Introduction. The Flop Problem and the Wear-and-Tear Problem1. The Transmission and Diffusion of Traditions2. Communication and Imitation3. The Myth of Compulsive Imitation4. A Theory of Diffusion Chains5. The Passing of Generations6. An Ever More Cultural AnimalIndex
Synopsis
Of all the things we do and say, most will never be repeated or reproduced. Once in a while, however, an idea or a practice generates a chain of transmission that covers more distance through space and time than any individual person ever could. What makes such transmission chains possible? For two centuries, the dominant view (from psychology to anthropology) was that humans owe their cultural prosperity to their powers of imitation. In this view, modern culturesexist because the people who carry them are gifted at remembering, storing and reproducing information. How Traditions Live and Die proposes an alternative to this standard view. What makes traditionslive is not a general-purpose imitation capacity. Cultural transmission is partial, selective, often unfaithful. Some traditions live on in spite of this, because they tap into widespread and basic cognitive preferences. These attractive traditions spread, not by being better retained or more accurately transferred, but because they are transmitted over and over. This theory is used to shed light on various puzzles of cultural change (from the distribution of bird songs to the staying power ofchildren's rhymes) and to explain the special relation that links the human species to its cultures. Morin combines recent work in cognitive anthropology with new advances in quantitative culturalhistory, to map and predict the diffusion of traditions. This book is both an introduction and an accessible alternative to contemporary theories of cultural evolution., This book brings together cognitive science and quantitative cultural history to look into the causes of cultural survival. Instead of blind and faithful imitation, it explores the appeal of traditions evolved to fit cognitive biases. This is both an introduction and an alternative to contemporary theories of cultural evolution., Of all the things we do and say, most will never be repeated or reproduced. Once in a while, however, an idea or a practice generates a chain of transmission that covers more distance through space and time than any individual person ever could. What makes such transmission chains possible? For two centuries, the dominant view (from psychology to anthropology) was that humans owe their cultural prosperity to their powers of imitation. In this view, modern cultures exist because the people who carry them are gifted at remembering, storing and reproducing information. How Traditions Live and Die proposes an alternative to this standard view. What makes traditions live is not a general-purpose imitation capacity. Cultural transmission is partial, selective, often unfaithful. Some traditions live on in spite of this, because they tap into widespread and basic cognitive preferences. These attractive traditions spread, not by being better retained or more accurately transferred, but because they are transmitted over and over. This theory is used to shed light on various puzzles of cultural change (from the distribution of bird songs to the staying power of children's rhymes) and to explain the special relation that links the human species to its cultures. Morin combines recent work in cognitive anthropology with new advances in quantitative cultural history, to map and predict the diffusion of traditions. This book is both an introduction and an accessible alternative to contemporary theories of cultural evolution.
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B105.T7M6713 2015
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