Essays on cultural transmission /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Berg,
2005.
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| Series: | Monographs on social anthropology ;
v. 75. |
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Table of Contents:
- Where did anthropology go? : or the need for 'human nature'
- Why trees, too, are good to think with : toward an anthropology of the meaning of life
- Questions not to ask of Malagasy carvings
- Commensality and poisoning
- What is passed on from parents to children : a cross-cultural investigation
- A well-disposed social anthropologist's problems with memes
- Are religious beliefs counter-intuitive?
- Ritual and deference
- Kinship and evolved psychological dispositions : the mother's-brother controversy reconsidered.