The Life History of Culture Learning in a Face‐to‐Face Society

By Robert Aunger. 2000

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Demography, Sociology and Political Science

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Ecological Inheritance and Cultural Inheritance: What Are They and How Do They Differ? (2011, background): “…an African group of hunter-gatherers, there was evidence for the transgenerational transmission of many customs (Hewlett and Cavalli-Sforza 1986), and among horticulturists in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the young acquire knowledge about foods primarily from their parents (Aunger 2000).”
Cultural Evolution: A Review of Theory, Findings and Controversies (2015, background): “2011); field studies doing the same in real-life settings (Aunger 2000; Henrich and Henrich 2010; Hewlett et al. 2011; ReyesGarcia et al. 2009); phylogenetic studies that reconstruct the evolutionary relationships between languages (Bouckaert et al.”
Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour (2002, background): “Among Aka pygmies, an African group of hunter–gatherers, there was evidence for parent to child transmission of many customs (Hewlett and Cavalli-Sforza, 1986), while among horticulturists in the Democratic Republic of Congo the young acquire knowledge about foods primarily from their parents (Aunge”
On the relationship between interindividual cultural transmission and population-level cultural diversity: a case study of weaving in Iranian tribal populations (2009, background): “…(e.g., Hewlett & Cavalli-Sforza, 1986), hunting and fishing techniques among the James Bay Cree (Ohamgari & Berkes, 1997), ethno-medicine among the Mapuche of Northwest Patagonia (Lozada et al., 2006), and food taboos in the Ituri rainforest of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Aunger, 2000).”
Social learning across the life cycle: cultural knowledge acquisition for honey collection among the Jenu Kuruba, India ☆ (2012, background): “Aunger (2000) looks at the acquisition of food taboos across the life cycle and finds that parents are important demonstrators mainly at early ages.”