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Explaining Culture Dan Sperber (CNRS, Paris)

Explaining Culture par Dan Sperber (CNRS, Paris)

Explaining Culture Dan Sperber (CNRS, Paris)

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Résumé

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.

Explaining Culture Résumé

Explaining Culture: A Naturalistic Approach Dan Sperber (CNRS, Paris)

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 Avis

Dan Sperber is to be thanked for continuing to contribute to dialogue between the cognitive and social branches of the human sciences. Daniel Nettle, Merton College Oxford


Apart from its wealth of insight, cogent arguments, apposite illustrations, and lucid and entertaining prose, Explaining Culture also offers a glimpse of what cultural study might be: rather than foreclosing possibilities on the strength of received wisdom or a selective interdisciplinary which rules out so much interesting thinking, it makes its own start on the formulation of fresh, apparently basic but at the same time far-reaching research questions. Alan Durant

Sperber emphasizes macro-and micro-processes of distribution that make cultural transformation and individual development possible and most simply processes of replication. Sperber offers the beginnings of a naturalistic theory of both culture and religion that will interest students and scholars alike. Susan Henking, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Geneva

Explaining Culture is a good read. It is full of interesting suggestions on a wide range of anthropological and psychological issues. Kim Sterelny, Music and Letters, Vol 110, July 2001.

À propos de Dan Sperber (CNRS, Paris)

Dan Sperber is Directeur de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. He has been visiting Professor at Princeton University, The London School of Economics and the University of Michigan. He is author of Rethinking Symbolism, On Anthropological Knowledge and, with Deirdre Wilson, Relevance: Communication and Cogntion (1995).

Sommaire

Preface.

Introduction.

1. How to be a True Materialist in Anthropology.

2. Interpreting and Explaining Cultural Representations.

3. Anthropology and Psychology: Towards an Epidemiology of Representations.

4. The Epidemiology of Beliefs.

5. Selection and Attraction in Cultural Evolution.

6. Mental Modularity and Cultural Diversity.

Conclusion: What is at Stake?.

Notes.

References.

Index.

Informations supplémentaires

GOR002403031
9780631200451
0631200452
Explaining Culture: A Naturalistic Approach Dan Sperber (CNRS, Paris)
Dan Sperber (CNRS, Paris)
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
19960920
184
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