• work that was developed into a full theory of "socio-cultural evolution" in 1965 (a work that includes references to other works in the then current revival of interest in the field). (wikipedia.org)
  • To contribute to fill this gap, we analyze fishing activities among two Baka communities from southeastern Cameroon, particularly focusing on fishing productivity as well as the ethnoecological specificities and the socio-cultural role of fishing. (openedition.org)
  • In contrast with hunting, whose value is mostly associated to the cultural valorization of the wild meat, the cultural importance of fishing is largely based on the activity in itself, through its socio-cultural dimension. (openedition.org)
  • This paper aims to highlight the socio-cultural value of fishing activities in the livelihood of contemporary forest hunter-gatherers. (openedition.org)
  • HISTORIAE, History of Socio-Cultural Transformation as Linguistic Data Science. (dagstuhl.de)
  • Initiated as a use case (UC4.2.1) within the COST Action Nexus Linguarum, European network for Web-centred linguistic data science, the study will explore emerging trends in knowledge extraction, analysis and representation from linguistic data science, and apply the devised methodology to datasets in the humanities to trace the evolution of concepts from the domain of socio-cultural transformation. (dagstuhl.de)
  • Confirmation on the committee came on September 14, 2020 when the then Culture Minister Prahlad Singh Patel said that an expert panel was set up for the "holistic study of origin and evolution of Indian culture since 12,000 years ago. (tribuneindia.com)
  • The Molecular and Cultural Evolution Lab (MACE) undertakes research into the evolutionary processes that shape patterns of modern and ancient human molecular and cultural variation. (ucl.ac.uk)
  • Yet at present, most work on the evolution of culture has focused solely on the transmission of individual-level traits. (cambridge.org)
  • In this target article, I discuss the emergence and evolution of group-level traits and the implications for the theory of cultural evolution, including ramifications for the evolution of human cooperation, technology, and cultural institutions, and for the equivalency of multilevel selection and inclusive fitness approaches. (cambridge.org)
  • Understanding the traits that have undergone positive selection during human evolution can provide insight into the events that have shaped our species, as well as into the diseases that continue to plague us today. (phys.org)
  • Cultural evolution aims in part to explain the dynamics of cultural change, defined as changes in the frequency and diversity of cultural traits over time. (mpg.de)
  • Beyond the Melting Pot : Cultural Transmission, Marriage, and the Evolution of Ethnic and Religious Traits ," DELTA Working Papers 1999-10, DELTA (Ecole normale supérieure). (repec.org)
  • 'Beyond the Melting Pot': Cultural Transmission, Marriage, and the Evolution of Ethnic and Religious Traits ," The Quarterly Journal of Economics , Oxford University Press, vol. 115(3), pages 955-988. (repec.org)
  • While we may not like these traits, a true follower of cultural relativism could not say these are wrong since they are merely the product of cultural adaptation. (probe.org)
  • We investigated the evolution of mobility using an agent-based and spatially explicit cultural evolutionary model that considers the feedback between foragers and their environment. (ucl.ac.uk)
  • Overall, the book provides a timely synthesis of current accounts of cultural transmission in relation to cognitive process, practical action, and local socio-ecological context, while linking these with explanations of longer-term evolutionary trajectories. (berghahnbooks.com)
  • This shortfall can be compensated by taking a diachronic perspective that focuses on the role of culture for the emergence and evolution of our cognitive abilities. (frontiersin.org)
  • While such differences are interesting in any case, in that they attest to cognitive diversity, for us to be willing to accept them as cultural differences, we would want them to involve at least two types of social processes: one for generating the pattern (such as transmission) and one for stabilizing it (such as mutual coercion). (frontiersin.org)
  • David talks with Alex Mesoudi about this field of cultural evolution and how it is bringing a full view of humanity into inquiry and building bridges across disparate fields of science. (google.com)
  • Cultural evolution, historically also known as sociocultural evolution, was originally developed in the 19th century by anthropologists stemming from Charles Darwin's research on evolution. (wikipedia.org)
  • There have been a number of different approaches to the study of cultural evolution, including dual inheritance theory, sociocultural evolution, memetics, cultural evolutionism, and other variants on cultural selection theory. (wikipedia.org)
  • 2004 Explaining Sociopolitical Complexity in the Foraging Adaptations of the Southeastern United States: The Roles of Demography, Kinship, and Ecology in Sociocultural Evolution. (uh.edu)
  • The distribution of genetic and cultural variation in human populations is shaped by demographic history, natural selection, mutation (or innovation) and random factors (drift). (ucl.ac.uk)
  • The concept of 'cultural transmission' is central to much contemporary anthropological theory, since successful human reproduction through social systems is essential for effective survival and for enhancing the adaptiveness of individual humans and local populations. (berghahnbooks.com)
  • We consider the dynamics of cultural evolution in spatially-structured populations. (santafe.edu)
  • Cultural competence is the body of knowledge, belief, and behavior that needs to be understood "not as an appliqué, but as part of the fabric" of communication with different populations. (cdc.gov)
  • However, very few studies - and less so among Central African forest societies - have focused on fishing practices and their social, cultural and symbolic complexity. (openedition.org)
  • In this talk Jan Pauly ( VI.BE & PXL Music) & Tobias Van Royen (Twee-eiige Drieling - twiiid.be ) guide you through some basic notions for understanding this evolutions, and guide you through some (best) practices to ultimately let you reflect on the opportunities of these new applications for your practice as an architect, researcher, artist, musician, (fashion) designer, writer. (uhasselt.be)
  • As we will see, cultural relativism allows us to be tolerant toward other cultures, but it provides no basis to judge or evaluate other cultures and their practices. (probe.org)
  • The strength of cultural relativism is that it allows us to withhold moral judgments about the social practices of another culture. (probe.org)
  • There has progressively been increased recognition of the need to address behavioural, lifestyle (harmful cultural practices) and other underlying socioeconomic, physical and biological factors, referred to here as the broad determinants of health, so as to improve health. (who.int)
  • This book brings together contributions that reflect the current diversity of approaches - from the fields of biology, primatology, palaeoanthropology, psychology, social anthropology, ethnobiology, and archaeology - to examine social and cultural transmission from a range of perspectives and at different scales of generalization. (berghahnbooks.com)
  • Proponents of cultural relativism believe this cultural diversity proves that culture alone is responsible for our morality. (probe.org)
  • Today, cultural evolution has become the basis for a growing field of scientific research in the social sciences, including anthropology, economics, psychology, and organizational studies. (wikipedia.org)
  • Aaron Podolefsky and Peter Brown and Scott Lacy Applying Cultural Anthropology: An Introductory Reader https://www.mheducation.com/cover-images/Jpeg_400-high/0078117038.jpeg 9 2013 July 30, 2012 9780078117039 The ninth edition of Applying Anthropology: An Introductory Reader is a collection of articles that provide compelling examples of applied research in cultural anthropology. (mheducation.com)
  • In this age of globalization and increased cultural intolerance, the basic messages of public anthropology are more important than ever. (mheducation.com)
  • Gunnel Cederlöf, Department of History and Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University: "Environmental History as an Emerging Field of Education and Research. (lu.se)
  • Based on the theorisations of Marxism came about The Birmingham and The Frankfurt school of cultural studies. (ipl.org)
  • Alex Antic, a Liberal Party senator for South Australia, recently gave a speech to parliament in which he detailed his reasons for entering public life, declaring: "I was tired of watching the political class, including some polyester conservatives, allow the tide of cultural Marxism to wash over us. (quadrant.org.au)
  • Within the hour a former ABC journalist, a current Guardian journalist and a professor at ACU took to Twitter to proclaim that in using the term "Cultural Marxism" Senator Antic was spreading an anti-Jewish "right-wing conspiracy theory"-a bizarre accusation considering that Antic had immediately followed these comments by praising Judeo-Christian values. (quadrant.org.au)
  • These knee-jerk responses reveal an interesting truth: we really aren't supposed to talk about Cultural Marxism. (quadrant.org.au)
  • So where did the term "Cultural Marxism" come from? (quadrant.org.au)
  • Lind wasn't some fringe crackpot, so when he began explaining his new analytical concept of "Cultural Marxism" people paid attention. (quadrant.org.au)
  • John Derbyshire Is Nostalgic For Creationism-It Was Nicer Than Cultural Marxism. (vdare.com)
  • It uses formal models and computer simulations to explore the complexity of cultural change: from the interaction between individuals to large-scale dynamics. (bsc.es)
  • The project will combine prehistoric human genomic, archaeological, environmental, stable isotope and climate data to better understand the processes that shaped our biological and cultural past from the time of the first farmers to the Iron Age (between 6000 to 500 BC). (ucl.ac.uk)
  • We work on the premise that a mechanistic understanding of the processes underlying cultural change can help us to explain something about the human species beyond what can be gleaned from genetic or even cultural data alone. (mpg.de)
  • To address this significant issue an interdisciplinary team of researchers comprised of archaeologists and geologists led by NPS and its research partners are updating perceptions about how these dynamic earth processes are impacting vulnerable cultural and paleontological resources on the coast ( Figure 3 ). (nps.gov)
  • Cultural processes are important to language development, and emphasis should be placed on the need to improve understanding in patient-provider communication. (cdc.gov)
  • Do Transmission Isolation Mechanisms (TRIMS) Influence Cultural Evolution? (berghahnbooks.com)
  • attitudes and behaviors as well as possible mechanisms to increase cultural competency knowledge, awareness, and skill sets of health providers, particularly physicians. (cdc.gov)
  • Cultural evolution is an evolutionary theory of social change. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the last 30 years, evolutionary theory has undergone explosive growth in studying humans as a fundamentally cultural species. (google.com)
  • This has sparked discussions about cultural appropriation and the importance of understanding and respecting the origins of the language we use. (metapress.com)
  • Cultural Appropriation: Whose Culture Is It Anyway, and What About Hybridity? (filmsforaction.org)
  • Furthermore, dam fishing represents a privileged space for learning, because it allows not only the transmission of ethnoichthyological knowledge, but also the transmission of other aspects of cultural knowledge that shape the early gender differentiation between boys and girls. (openedition.org)
  • Par ailleurs, elle représente un espace d'apprentissage d'une grande richesse allant au-delà de la transmission de savoirs ethno-ichtyologiques propres à cette activité, mais également d'apprentissage culturel, tout particulièrement en lien avec la construction du genre. (openedition.org)
  • Using archaeological and ethnographic data, we seek to quantify these differences, and by doing so, better understand the evolution of our dietary preferences, including why we often seek foods that are unhealthy. (ucl.ac.uk)
  • As between-group differences are neither a sufficient nor a necessary indicator of cultural impact, cross-cultural comparisons in isolation are unable to furnish any cogent conclusions. (frontiersin.org)
  • In addition to not being sufficient as indicators of cultural influences, between-group differences are not necessary either. (frontiersin.org)
  • Regional language differences and the evolution of language are concerns in a multicultural environment. (cdc.gov)
  • Evolution goes beyond the genetic code and the transformation of physical form, from land-mammal to whale or dinosaur to bird. (phys.org)
  • I specialize in coastal adaptation and the role of craft specialization in the development of cultural complexity. (uh.edu)
  • In Signs of Power: The Rise of Cultural Complexity in the Southeast edited by Jon L. Gibson and Philip J. Carr, pp. 234 - 253. (uh.edu)
  • Although adding spatial components to any model increases its complexity, we argue ( based on the findings presented by contributors to this Special Issue of Advances in Complex Systems), that the incorporation of space into the evolutionary framework is a necessary step towards a more complete understanding of the process of cultural evolution. (santafe.edu)
  • The Special Issue of Geosciences titled: "Preservation of Cultural Heritage and Resources Threatened by Climate Change" has been launched to take stock of the existing, but still fragmentary knowledge on this challenge-at European level only two projects, Noah`s Ark (2007), and Climate for Culture, (2014) finalized their research on these issues-and to enable the heritage community to respond to the implementation of the Paris Climate agreement. (mdpi.com)
  • Additional research, to assess past and future weather-related events affecting cultural heritage is needed to document experience of how cultural heritage were affected and responded to changing climate (e.g., using previous data surveys, archival data, photographs), and to plan long-term management scenarios of heritage sites on the base of future climate change projections. (mdpi.com)
  • A template can be used to develop a strategy to assess an organization's level of cultural competency and to develop an overall plan to address the concerns identified. (cdc.gov)
  • Cultural competency in health care is defined as “a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system, agency or among professionals and enable that system, agency or those professions to work effectively in cross-cultural situations. (cdc.gov)
  • p.7] Additionally, as the field of cultural competency grows and changes, up-to-date information and education and skill-building will become even more critical to good clinical practice. (cdc.gov)
  • Let me remind that we are living in the era of the deep crisis of thought and 'age of cultural intolerance' across the world because of the Right-wing conservative forces has captured the power in most of the countries. (countercurrents.org)
  • The emergence of calligraphy, one of the highest quality art forms in China, caused the evolution of Chinese characters. (igi-global.com)
  • A sketch of the evidence for selection on inter-group cultural variation in humans. (cambridge.org)
  • His major research interests focus on integrating the biological, cultural, and technological aspects of evolution in humans, non-human primates, and fossil hominins. (berghahnbooks.com)
  • {2} Gertz believed that "Humans are shaped exclusively by their culture and therefore there exists no unifying cross-cultural human characteristics. (probe.org)
  • We are currently in the next reset and are witnessing a cultural shift and transformation evolving at a rapid pace. (formatfestival.com)
  • The aim of this initiative is to develop a unified framework capable of understanding cultural change beyond the knowledge of any single discipline. (bsc.es)
  • I propose a conceptual extension of the theory of cultural evolution, particularly related to the evolutionary competition between cultural groups. (cambridge.org)
  • The multidisciplinary Theory in Cultural Evolution Lab (TICE Lab) brings together a unique group of mathematicians, physicists, theoretical biologists, and statisticians contributing to a general theory of cultural evolution. (mpg.de)
  • Thus, we aim to place the study of cultural evolution on a firm theoretical footing, and provide a bridge between that theory and the cultural data collected by anthropologists and archaeologists. (mpg.de)
  • The approaches differ not just in the history of their development and discipline of origin but in how they conceptualize the process of cultural evolution and the assumptions, theories, and methods that they apply to its study. (wikipedia.org)
  • As a discipline, cultural history is a bit over two centuries old, but it has an extensive prehistory going back to Renaissance scholarship, especially in areas of the history of literature and the history of philosophy. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Cultural history" ( Kulturgeschichte ) arose as a term and a concept in the later eighteenth century, as "culture" replaced earlier equivalents, including "spirit" ( mens, esprit, Geist, etc.), which was extended from individual psychology to collective mentality (e.g. (encyclopedia.com)
  • As Nicholas Wickenden has put it, "What Vossius called 'literary history' was really what would now be called cultural history. (encyclopedia.com)
  • For Herder, cultural history aspired not only to criticize but even to replace philosophy as the foundational discipline of human understanding. (encyclopedia.com)
  • And other scholars followed Herder in associating cultural history with critical philosophy, including Christoph Meiners, Karl Franz von Irwing, K. H. L. P ö litz, Dietrich Hermann Hegewisch, and Johann Gottfried Eichhorn. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Cultural history" had an extraordinary fortuna in the generations after Adelung and Herder. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Use story-telling to share Cultural Entrepreneurship history. (harvard.edu)
  • They wanted our history to "study evolution of Indian culture from 12,000 years ago. (tribuneindia.com)
  • The idea of a culture war in education conjures up a host of long-standing, never-completely-resolved disputes over things like sex education , the teaching of evolution , Ebonics , history standards and curriculum , and bilingual education . (edweek.org)
  • We agree that transmitting our cultural heritage as a manifest source of our common history and identity to future generations, by protecting physical representations of past events and people, is a crucial obligation of our generation. (mdpi.com)
  • Dunér, D 2014, ' Cultural evolution, conceptual metaphors and science ', [Publication information missing] , s. 80-80. (lu.se)
  • He argued for both customs (1874 p. 239) and "inherited habits" as contributing to human evolution, grounding both in the innate capacity for acquiring language. (wikipedia.org)
  • Volksgeist or Zeitgeist ), and literature, referring to all the written remains of human cultural achievement. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Dietary change has been linked to many aspects of human evolution over the last 3 million years, including tool use, brain size increase, aerobic capacity and gut biology. (ucl.ac.uk)
  • The resulting scenery, where human modifications contrast and overlap the natural landforms acquires the value of a Cultural Landscape. (unesco.org)
  • The book is ideally suited as study material for an advanced course on language evolution and it will be of interest to anyone who wonders how human languages may have originated. (google.es)
  • Contemporary Cultural Studies can have an important role in the identification and actualization of common factors of diverse cultures, creating and maintaining respect for others and human dignity. (novapublishers.com)
  • To understand long-term cultural dynamics using archaeological and historical data. (bsc.es)
  • but rather as complementary tools that can provide different insights into cultural evolutionary dynamics. (santafe.edu)
  • Arabic script allowed diverse and disparate cultural communities to exchange literary knowledge across long distances. (fu-berlin.de)
  • Evidence of cultural influences on cognition is accumulating, but untangling these cultural influences from one another or from non-cultural influences has remained a challenging task. (frontiersin.org)
  • Despite increasing evidence for the existence of cultural influences on cognition, untangling them from one another or from non-cultural influences has remained a challenging task. (frontiersin.org)
  • The conference also aims to investigate the growth and evolution of Arabic texts . (fu-berlin.de)
  • Cultural evolution, in the Darwinian sense of variation and selective inheritance, could be said to trace back to Darwin himself. (wikipedia.org)
  • The fascinating question of the origins and evolution of language has been drawing a lot of attention recently, not only from linguists, but also from anthropologists, evolutionary biologists, and brain scientists. (google.es)
  • In recent years, there has been a convergence of the cluster of related theories towards seeing cultural evolution as a unified discipline in its own right. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Toronto Semiotic Circle organized a symposium on "Imitation, Memory, and Cultural Changes: Probing the Meme Hypothesis" held at Victoria College (University of Toronto), Northrop Frye Hall, Room 205, on May 4-6, 2007. (semioticon.com)
  • We need to develop a culture where people care about each other's wellbeing and evolution, where they cultivate more meaningful conversations and deeper connections, and foster a sense of belonging with the land and community. (dumbofeather.com)
  • Cultural Evolution is one of the most recent and interesting approaches to the crucial task of understanding how society works. (bsc.es)
  • Understanding past dietary changes, and how we have adapted both culturally and biologically to them, is key to understanding our evolution and place in nature. (ucl.ac.uk)
  • Ten strategic recommendations give schools a clear direction to assess and evaluate their understanding and action towards the evolution of a more culturally competent physician workforce. (cdc.gov)
  • Others pursued more specific analogies notably the anthropologist F. T. (Ted) Cloak who argued in 1975 for the existence of learnt cultural instructions (cultural corpuscles or i-culture) resulting in material artefacts (m-culture) such as wheels. (wikipedia.org)
  • The newspaper's debut feature-length documentary, " The South Got Something to Say, " chronicles the evolution of Atlanta's journey to become a dominant force in both popular music and culture while the city experiences its own growth and development. (ajc.com)
  • I am an archaeologist who specializes in Culture Ecology, the study of the interrelationship of cultural systems with the environment. (uh.edu)
  • {1} Cultural relativism is the view that all ethical truth is relative to a specific culture. (probe.org)
  • Whatever a cultural group approves is considered right within that culture. (probe.org)
  • {4} In other words, what we perceive as conscience is merely the product of culture upon our minds through childhood training and cultural influence. (probe.org)
  • In fact, proponents of cultural relativism would say that to pass judgment on another culture would be ethnocentric. (probe.org)
  • Nils-Axel Mörner, Paleogeophysics & Geodynamics, Stockholm University: "Research and Education in the Maldives regarding sea level changes, island evolution and reef ecology. (lu.se)
  • Within this frame the possible shift from linear productions models to production across media represents a challenge since on the producers side requires a radical cultural shift and on the audience side it requires both knowledge and willingness to engage with texts across media. (lu.se)
  • To do this, we focus on developing analytical and simulation models of various cultural phenomena. (mpg.de)
  • We are always keen to hear from potential Ph.D. students or post-doctoral researchers with interest or experience in theoretical cultural evolution, especially from mathematical or quantitative backgrounds. (mpg.de)
  • This exhibition evolves from the utopic manifestations of Afro-Futurist imaginary into a more benevolent performative reflection on the major challenges of our age-the Anthropocene and the role artists play in mediating cultural narratives for those hidden narratives and others left behind. (formatfestival.com)
  • Cultural evolution is the change of this information over time. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the 19th century cultural evolution was thought to follow a unilineal pattern whereby all cultures progressively develop over time. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cultural studies is an academic space of empirically, theoretically and politically engaged cultural analysis coined by British academics during the time period of 1950-1970. (ipl.org)
  • Cultural competence, as expressed by the National Center for Cultural Competence, includes the institutionalization of cultural knowledge and the evolution of competence over time. (cdc.gov)
  • Only morbidity and mortality [ 1 ], and its mane women of Saharawi origin and without any agement is a complex issue that includes previous systemic diseases were eligible a wide range of cultural and psychosocial for this investigation. (who.int)
  • The artists exhibited in The Cultural Evolution all demonstrate an awareness of the rapidly changing cultural landscape and the need to insert themselves across various aspects and genres of the rapidly transforming visual cultural scene. (formatfestival.com)
  • Many historical records on occurred landslides and stabilisation works, since 1373 AD, have been collected and analysed in order to reconstruct in detail the evolution of the urban setting and cliff, where landslides repeating continuously throughout the valley are creating an ever-changing landscape that looks different every day. (unesco.org)
  • But can this digital (r)evolution provide opportunities in search of new governing models, solutions for provenance of research, new revenue models, protection of moral authors rights, et cetera? (uhasselt.be)
  • There are no universal ethical principles, merely different cultural conditioning. (probe.org)
  • As a minimum standard, therefore, cross-cultural studies would have to be complemented and bolstered by in-depth ethnographic investigations of where these group-specific patterns originate, how they spread, and how they are maintained (for a rare example of this combination, see Dasen and Mishra, 2010 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Ranging from conventional solo piano performances, to organs, theremins, electronic music, and large orchestras performing a specially written score, today's cultural institutions compete in curating and delivering programmes of 'film concerts' focusing specifically on silent films. (lu.se)
  • You do not, however, have to be a cultural materialist to believe that demographic variables such as population, density, and societal size are causally significant. (dannyreviews.com)
  • Sumner studied all sorts of societies (primitive and advanced), and was able to document numerous examples of cultural relativism. (probe.org)
  • In conclusion, calling attention to mass media, cultural studies relates to how the audience can decode the messages put forward by the media. (ipl.org)
  • Cultural Studies has been quite popular over the last 20 years. (novapublishers.com)
  • While there are many factors contributing to the status of Cultural Studies, the primary problem has been that Cultural Studies has emphasized the negative side of critique without providing a corrective direction. (novapublishers.com)
  • In light of that, a Contemporary Cultural Studies Series which is critical in a positive sense is required. (novapublishers.com)
  • It depends on the social and cultural fabric of our communities, it depends on our ability to be of service. (dumbofeather.com)
  • Saharawi ethnic simply an autonomous, individual choice, groups, characterized by the Hassaniyya but is mediated by cultural factors. (who.int)
  • However, data on cultural change is difficult to collect and analyse. (bsc.es)
  • To develop computer models of cultural change. (bsc.es)
  • In any cultural change, it is easy to say that it is the other person who has to do the changing. (who.int)
  • My most recent field work has been at the famous "Miami Circle" site where my excavations resulted in the cultural association of the circle and the dating of the site the circle is located in. (uh.edu)
  • Evolution of a young work er training curriculum: taking safety from the classroom to the break room. (cdc.gov)