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Cetacean culture: Resisting myths and addressing lacunae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

Alan Rauch
Alan Rauch
Affiliation:
Program in Science, Technology, and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0165 alan.rauch@lcc.gatech.edu www.lcc.gatech.edu/~rauch
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Abstract

Assessments of cetacean behavior has been hampered by popular misconceptions and mythic imagery. Rendell and Whitehead argue persuasively for accepting the idea of cetacean culture. Approaches to “culture,” however, must resist positivist approaches that reaffirm the observable. Culture is also comprised of “lacunae” when organisms choose to resist or avoid behavioral patterns.

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Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , April 2001 , pp. 352 - 353
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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