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The uses of ethnography in the science of cultural evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2006

Jamshid Tehrani
Jamshid Tehrani*
Affiliation:
Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London, WC1H 0PY, United Kingdom
*
j.tehrani@ucl.ac.uk
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Abstract:

There is considerable scope for developing a more explicit role for ethnography within the research program proposed in the article. Ethnographic studies of cultural micro-evolution would complement experimental approaches by providing insights into the “natural” settings in which cultural behaviours occur. Ethnography can also contribute to the study of cultural macro-evolution by shedding light on the conditions that generate and maintain cultural lineages.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , August 2006 , pp. 363 - 364
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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