Overview
- Offers a gateway to a fundamental concept, the basis for understanding culture
- Is an exercise in thinking across boundaries
- Shows great potential for public policy and intercultural research
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Keywords
- Concepts of Culture
- Cultural Anthropology
- Cultural Diversities Across and Within Cultures
- Cultural Frame Switching
- Cultural Traits and Transmission
- Cultural Transmission
- Geographical Bondaries
- Interdisciplinary Dialogue
- International Cooperation for Development
- Material Culture
- Social Learning
- Understanding Cultural Diversity
- Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity
Table of contents (22 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Emanuele Serrelli is a philosopher of science interested in interdisciplinarity within and across the natural and social sciences. He works with several Italian universities. He was visiting scholar at the University of Utah, and visiting fellow at the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science, at the Lisbon Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab, and at NESCent National Center for Evolutionary Synthesis, Durham, NC. As a member of the scientific board of CISEPS Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Economics, Psychology and Social Sciences, University of Milano Bicocca, he leads the “Cultural Evolution” research program. As a philosopher of biology, he is trained in evolutionary theory, where he also studies interdisciplinarity and modeling. Fabrizio Panebianco is an economist working on the economics of cultural transmission and on the role played, in this process, by the network of social interactions. He fosters a highly interdisciplinary research agenda merging different evolutionary approaches. He worked in several italian and european universities and now works in Bocconi University. He is member of the scientific board of CISEPS Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Economics, Psychology and Social Sciences, University of Milano Bicocca, and worked in the “Cultural Evolution” research program.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding Cultural Traits
Book Subtitle: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Cultural Diversity
Editors: Fabrizio Panebianco, Emanuele Serrelli
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24349-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-24347-4Published: 04 March 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79608-6Published: 07 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-24349-8Published: 26 February 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 410
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Studies, Methodology of the Social Sciences