Developing the Field Site Concept for the Study of Cultural Evolution

Bibliographic Data

ID13100855
AuthorsD S Wilson (0000-0002-0611-3431, University of Oslo, corresponding author), H Whitehouse (0000-0001-6935-6724, University of Oxford)
Year2017
Volume7
Issue2
Publication date2017-01-12
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCliodynamics The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2373-7530 • E-ISSN: 2373-7530
PublisherCalifornia Digital Library (CDL) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.21237/c7clio7233542
OpenAlexW2576602933
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited46

As the study of human cultural evolution matures, field sites will increasingly have a role to play, just as they have in the study of genetic and cultural evolution in nonhuman species. Progress, however, may not be easy due to complex intellectual histories and disciplinary norms. Cultural anthropology and sociology, the two most field-oriented disciplines in the human behavioral sciences, have been among the most avoidant of evolutionary theory. In other branches of the human behavioral sciences, the bulk of research is conducted on college students in the laboratory without any reference to their cultures or everyday lives

Field (mathematics · Geography · Sociology · Language and cultural evolution · Mathematics

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