Differential Adaptations and Micro-Cultural Evolution in Guyana
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2234210 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leo A Despres (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1969 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 14-44 |
| Publication date | 1969-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Southwestern Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-4801 • E-ISSN: 2328-1839 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/soutjanth.25.1.3629466 |
| OpenAlex | W2316219470 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 7 |
Guyana has been described as a plural society. The interdependent units of societies of this type comprise culturally differentiated groups rather than socially differentiated persons. The ecology of Guyana discloses that the conditions of pluralism derive from the evolutionary adaptation of culturally dissimilar populations to selective environmental forces. Contrary to widely held opinion, it appears that the selective advantage of pluralism is the reduction of competition among culturally distinctive groups
Adaptation (eye) · Biology · Competition (biology) · Differentiation · Economic geography · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Geography · Interdependence · Plural · Pluralism (philosophy) · Social science · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Ecology · Philosophy
Symbolic legacies of slavery in Guyana
Limitation of Human Rights, Land Exclusion, and Tribal Extinction
History, Ecology, and Demography in the British Caribbean
Social Functions of Carnival in a Dominican City
Ethnic Survival under Anglo-American Hegemony
Historical writing on migration into the commonwealth Caribbean
Class, Ethnicity, and the Family in Contemporary Society
Extension of niche theory in human ecology
Ecological Niche Theory in Sociocultural Anthropology
Ethnic Diversity and Its Environmental Determinants
The plural society in the British West Indies
Animal Species and Evolution
Life in a Haitian Valley.
The Politics of the Developing Areas
"Telanthropus" and the Single Species Hypothesis1
The Implications of Nationalist Politics in British Guiana for the Development of Cultural Theory1
The Ecological Approach in Anthropology
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1970 - 2006 (37) |
| Highly cited | No |