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Cultural Transmission and Material Culture
Stark, Miriam T.; Bowser, Brenda J.; Horne, Lee
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Description for Cultural Transmission and Material Culture
Hardcover. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 150 x 30. Weight in Grams: 612.
How and why people develop, maintain, and change cultural boundaries through time are central issues in the social and behavioral sciences in generaland anthropological archaeology in particular. What factors influence people to imitate or deviate from the behaviors of other group members? How are social group boundaries produced, perpetuated, and altered by the cumulative outcomeof these decisions? Answering these questions is fundamental to understanding cultural persistence and change. The chapters included in this stimulating, multifaceted book address these questions.
Working in several subdisciplines, contributors report on research in the areas of cultural boundaries, cultural transmission, and the socially ... Read more
How and why people develop, maintain, and change cultural boundaries through time are central issues in the social and behavioral sciences in generaland anthropological archaeology in particular. What factors influence people to imitate or deviate from the behaviors of other group members? How are social group boundaries produced, perpetuated, and altered by the cumulative outcomeof these decisions? Answering these questions is fundamental to understanding cultural persistence and change. The chapters included in this stimulating, multifaceted book address these questions.
Working in several subdisciplines, contributors report on research in the areas of cultural boundaries, cultural transmission, and the socially ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Arizona Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816526758
SKU
V9780816526758
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