Evolution of Culture
1st Edition
Published on 29. July 2019
256 pages
978-1-4744-6788-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores the ways in which contemporary evolutionary thinking might inform the study of the peculiarly human phenomenon of symbolic culture, including language, ritual, religion, religion and art.
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Robin Dunbar | Chris Knight
The Evolution of Culture
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04/1999
Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- The Contributors
- Preface
- 1 An evolutionary approach to human culture
- PART I THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIETY
- 2 The evolution of social organization
- 3 Symbolism as reference and symbolism as culture
- 4 Modern hunter-gatherers and early symbolic culture
- PART II THE EVOLUTION OF ART AND RELIGION
- 5 Sexual selection for cultural displays
- 6 'Beauty magic': the origins of art
- 7 The Origin of symbolic culture
- 8 Symbolism and the supernatural
- PART III THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE
- 9 The evolution of languages and languages
- 10 Culture, honesty and the freerider problem
- 11 Language Variation and the evolution of societies
- 12 Sex and language as pretend-play
- Futher reading
- Author index
- Subject index
