Cultural Dynamics, Anth 339
PLASTICITY
WEEK 1, Do we exhibit distinctive forms of morphological, physiological, and historical plasticity?
1982 Human Adaptability. Boulder: Westview Press. Chapter 4 and at least two of the following chapters – 5,6,9
1965 The Conditions of Agricultural Growth. Chicago: Aldine. (selections)
1981 Population and Technological Change. Chicago: Univ of Chicago Press. (selections)
1980 Resources, Population, Environment: An Oversupply of False Bad News. Science 208:1431-1437.
CULTURE & ITS PROPERTIES
WEEK 2 What is culture?
1936 The Study of Man. NY: Appleton, Century, Crofts. Pp. 326-327.
1932 Cultural Anthropology and Psychiatry. The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 27:229-242.
Kroeber, AL & Kluckhohn, Clyde
1952 Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts & Definitions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol 47, No. 1 (Part IV, Summary and Conclusions, B, C; pp. 180-190)
1999 Culture is Not Everything. In, Anthropological Theory in North America, E.L. Cerroni-Long, editor. Pp. 85-103. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey.
Boyd, Robert and Peter J, Richarson.
1985 Culture and the Evolutionary Process. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. Pp. 32-60.
WEEK 3 In what sense, if at all, does culture exhibit superorganic, collective properties?
Class, Status, Party. Pp. 180-195; The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism. Pp. 302-322. From Max Weber, edited by HH Gerth and CW Mills, 1958.
Suicide. Pp. 297-325; and The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. Pp. 418-448.
1997. Anthropological Linguistics. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Chapters 19, 20, 21.
Searle, John R
1995 The Construction of Social Reality. NY: The Free Press. Chapters 1-6
1990 Foundations of Social Theory Cambridge: Harvard Univ Press. Chapter 1
MINDS & CULTURES
WEEK 4. How does the mind work? part I, cognition
1911 Introduction. Handbook of American Indian Language. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 40
Bargh, John A., and Tanya L. Chartrand.
1999. The Unbearable Automaticity of Being. American Psychologist 54: 462-479.
1953 Innovation. New York: McGraw-Hill. Pp 1-16, 181-266.
1995 The Development of Cognitive Anthropology. Cambridge: CUP. Chapters 8, 9
Cosmides, Leda, and John Tooby,
1992 Cognitive Adaptations for Social Exchange. Pp. 163-228. In The Adapted Mind, J.H. Barkow, L. Cosmides, and J. Tooby, eds. NY: Oxford University Press.
WEEK 5. How does the mind work? part II, emotion
1997 Human Nature Explored. NY: Oxford Univ Press, 1997. Chapter 6
2000 Memory – a Century of Consolidation. Science 287:248-251.
Cardinal, R.N., J.A. Parkinson, J. Hall, and B.J. Everitt
2002 Emotion and Motivation: the Role of the Amygdala, Ventral Striatum, and Prefrontal Cortex. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 26: 321-352.
McNaughton, Neil, and Philip J. Corr
2004 A Two-Dimensional Neuropsychology of Defense: Fear/Anxiety and Defensive Distance. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 28: 285-305.
2004 The Neural Basis of Altruistic Punishment. Science 305:1254-1258. With Knutson B. Sweet Revenge? Science 2004;305:1246-1247.
WEEK 6. How does the mind work? Part III, intelligence.
Jerison, H.J.
1973 Evolution of the Brain and Intelligence. New York: Academic Press. Selections.
2001 On Theory in Comparative Psychology. In, The Evolution of Intelligence R.J. Sternberg and J.C. Kaufman, eds. Pp. 251-288. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc.
2001 Evolution of Avian Intelligence, With an Emphasis on Grey Parrots (Psittacus erithacus) In, The Evolution of Intelligence R.J. Sternberg and J.C. Kaufman, eds. Pp. 315-337. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc.
1989 The Origins and Evolution of Culture. American Anthropologist 91: 313-326.
2002 Understanding the Nature of the General Factor of Intelligence. Psychological Review 109: 116-136.
2001 Intelligence as Predisposed Skeptical Induction Engines. In, The Evolution of Intelligence R.J. Sternberg and J.C. Kaufman, eds. Pp. 339-358. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc.
2002 Cultural Darwinism and Language. American Anthropologist 104:223-232.
WEEK 8. How does the mind work? part IV, social learning
2001 Social Cognitive Theory. Annual Review of Psychology 52: 1-26.
Henrich, Joseph, and Richard McElreath
2003 The Evolution of Cultural Evolution. Evolutionary Anthropology 12: 123-135; recommended supplement: Boyd, Robert and Peter J. Richarson 1985 Culture and the Evolutionary Process. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. Pp. 60-80.
2001 Cultural Transmission. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 32:135-146.
Danchin, Etienne, Luc-Alain Giraldeau, Thomas J. Valone, and Richard H. Wagner
2004 Public Information: From Nosy Neighbors to Cultural Evolution. Science 305:487-491.
Reader, Simon M., and Kevin N. Laland
2002 Social Intelligence, Innovation, and Enhanced Brain Size in Primates. PNAS 99:4436-4441.
WEEK 9 How does the mind work? part V, choices
Shafir E, LeBoeuf RA. Rationality. Annual Review of Psychology 2002;53:491-517.
Becker GS Crime and punishment: an economic approach. Journal of Political Economy 1968; 76:169-217
Bueno de Mesquita B. Ruminations on Challenges to Prediction with Rational Choice Models. Rationality and Society 2003; 15: 136-147.
Kahneman D. Maps of bounded rationality: Psychology for behavioral economics. The American Economic Review 2003;93:1449-1475.
De Martino, B., Kumaran, D., Seymour, B. & Dolan, R.J. Frames, biases and rational decision-making in the human brain. Science 2006;313:684-687.
Wildavsky A. Choosing Preferences by Constructing Institutions: American Political Science Review 1987; 81:3-21.
THE ORIGIN OF CULTURES
WEEK 10-11 What evolved, when, how, and why?
Handwerker, The Origin of Cultures (2008) Chapters 1-5; Chapter 6.