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- Asch, M, et al.
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More on the return of the native
- 2006
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Ingår i: Current Anthropology. - : University of Chicago Press. - 1537-5382 .- 0011-3204. ; 47:1, s. 145-149
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- Hornborg, Alf
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Ethnogenesis, regional integration, and ecology in prehistoric Amazonia: Toward a system perspective
- 2005
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Ingår i: Current Anthropology. - : University of Chicago Press. - 1537-5382 .- 0011-3204. ; 46:4, s. 589-620
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper critically reviews reconstructions of cultural development in prehistoric Amazonia and argues for the primacy of regional and interregional exchange in generating the complex distributions of ethno-linguistic identities traced by linguists and archaeologists in the area. This approach requires an explicit abandonment of notions of migrating "peoples" in favor of modern anthropological understandings of ethnicity and ethnogenesis. Further, the paper discusses the significance of such a regional system perspective on Amazonian ethnogenesis for the ongoing debate on the extent of social stratification and agricultural intensification on the floodplains and wet savannas of lowland South America. It concludes that the emergence of Arawakan chiefdoms and ethnic identities in such environments after the first millennium BC signifies the occupation of a niche defined in terms of both ecology and regional exchange but also that it transformed both these kinds of conditions. In these processes, ethnicity, social stratification, economy, and ecology were all recursively intertwined.
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- Kulick, Don
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Theory in Furs : masochist anthropology
- 2006
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Ingår i: Current Anthropology. - : University of Chicago Press. - 0011-3204 .- 1537-5382. ; 47:6, s. 933-952
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- McElreath, Richard, et al.
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When natural selection favors imitation of parents
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Ingår i: Current Anthropology. - : University of Chicago Press. - 0011-3204 .- 1537-5382. ; 49:3, s. 307-316
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- It is commonly assumed that parents are important sources of socially learned behavior and beliefs. However, the empirical evidence that parents are cultural models is ambiguous, and debates continue over their importance. A formal theory that examines the evolution of psychological tendencies to imitate parents (vertical transmission) and to imitate nonparent adults (oblique transmission) in stochastic fluctuating environments points to forces that sometimes make vertical transmission adaptive, but oblique transmission recovers more quickly from rapid environmental change. These results suggest that neither mode of transmission should be expected to dominate the other across all domains. Vertical transmission may be preferred when (1) learned behavior affects fertility rather than survival to adulthood, (2) the relevant environmentis stable, or (3) selection is strong. For thoseinterested in the evolution of social learning in diverse taxa, these models provide predictions for use in comparative studies.
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- Århem, Kaj, 1948
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Comment (on Fausto: Feasting on people)
- 2007
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Ingår i: Current Anthropology. - : University of Chicago Press. - 0011-3204 .- 1537-5382. ; 48:4 (August)
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Fausto’s article provides a useful synthesis of important aspects of indigenous Amazonian animism. It can be read as an explication (or a reformulation?) of certain themes in Viveiros de Castro’s (1998a) landmark paper on Amerindian perspectivism (the “somatic” form of animism), a paper which, I believe, has still more to yield for students of animistic ontologies. I only regret that Fausto did not develop his comparative discussion more fully. The parallels and contrasts between the Americas and Asia are, as he notes, many and significant. The transformation of the “Sibero-American animistic tradition” into a Southeast Asian variety would seem to me to be of considerable theoretical and comparative interest.
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