Data on interactions in, say, the souks of Marrakech, where people speak Arabic, Hassaniya, Moroccan Arabic, French, Tashelhit, and other languages, are impossible to get but important
in cultural transmission, he says.
Commenting on the research, leading primatologist Professor Frans de Waal, of the Yerkes Primate Center of Emory University, said that the study «is one of the few successful field experiments
on cultural transmission to date, and a remarkably elegant one at that.»
We humans appear to have an artificial, inflated view of ourselves due to commonly held beliefs in illusory
cultural transmissions about the placement of humanity in the natural order of all living things.
Cultural transmission happens in spoken language too, points out William Rivers, the executive director of the nonprofit Joint National Committee for Languages and the National Council for Languages and International Studies in Garrett Park, Maryland.
Writing in the October issue of Current Anthropology, he and three colleagues challenge a widely accepted notion that
cultural transmission goes back more than 2 million years.
Anthropologists call this
process cultural transmission, and there was a time when it did not exist, when humans or more likely their smaller brained ancestors did not pass on knowledge.
Leakey and his colleagues did not explicitly say Homo habilis learned how to make the tool
through cultural transmission, but the word «culture» alone implies it, said Premo.
Thus,
cultural transmission does not require the high cognitive sophistication specific to humans, nor is it a distinctive feature of humans.»
This fall, they are developing a new project — «P.O.L.E. (People, Objects, Language, Exchange)» — that continues their investigations of the choreography of relationships and the movement of
cultural transmission via the vernacular of pole dancing.
They also reveal how foreign art forms and ideas were adapted to local tastes, and sketch out the lines of
inter-regional cultural transmission that are especially central to scholarly painting and ceramic traditions in East Asia.
Cultural transmissions abound about the grandeur of the individual, while silence persists about the reality of human beings as one among many wondrous creatures to inhabit a small, finite, frangible planet.
also many First Nations people, despite living on a reserve, feel a deep disconnection from their culture as a result of the disruption of
intergenerational cultural transmission caused by the residential school system.
«All of their contemporaries figured that any stone tool must be an example of culture because they thought that humans are the only animals that make and use tools and humans rely
on cultural transmission to do so,» said Premo.
In that work, he analyzed the peculiarities of
the cultural transmission of structures of consciousness.
The study has been hailed by leading primate experts as rare experimental proof of «
cultural transmission» in wild primates to date.
Writing in the journal Current Anthropology, they say the tools could have been what lead author Claudio Tennie calls «latent solutions» that rely on an animal's inherent skill rather than
cultural transmission.
«Early humans and dawn of human information sharing: Team challenges accepted notions of
cultural transmission.»
She rightly focuses on the impressive abilities of our primate cousins, from
their cultural transmission of tool use to their ability to count.
Dr Claudio Tennie added, «Given these results, the long - held assumption that apes must observe one another in order to show these behaviours may have been due to an illusion of
cultural transmission — created by the apes arriving at the same behaviour independently.»
Consequently,
cultural transmission may be impeded if new behaviors are introduced to a group by non-preferred social models [15], [22], [23].
«It has long been realized that dolphins rank among the most intelligent mammals, and they can do many things that great apes can do such as mirror self - recognition, communication, mimicry, and
cultural transmission,» lead author Michael McGowen told Discovery News, adding that dolphin brains are also «distinct and different.»
Similarly, Barr, Barth, and Shermis (1977) summarized perspectives of the social studies into three categories:
cultural transmission, social science, and reflective inquiry.
Cultural Transmission, Educational Attainment and Social Mobility.
Play in these relationships involve «individual creativity, interpretation, improvisation, and
cultural transmission.»
These two themes are invoked in many works, along with the notions of mobility, nomadism, migration, and itinerancy and nuances of language, translation, and
cultural transmission, among others.
While delving into one of the most primordial and complex systems of communication, that of clothing, Huanca conveys distinctive and precise observations on the function of the garment, as an ever evolving manner of language production and a traditional form of
cultural transmission.
Ten artists whose work deals with the diasporic condition — particularly issues such as migration and
cultural transmission — were mentored by likeminded, more established peers, and all participants now show their diverse, dynamic, witty works together in Venice.
Giron lives passionately and is motivated by the challenge of understanding those deep questions relating to learning and
cultural transmission.
Arantes chose to focus on the women as their place in this process of integration is critical — many still carry the greater responsibility of family, work and
cultural transmission than their male counterparts.
Using both the body and its armor as an abstract material in this way, Huanca reveals the underlying primordial and mammalian character of the garment and its relationship to our body as a form of
cultural transmission.
The cloistered conditions necessary for this kind of
cultural transmission, however messy it looks, were previously limited to places like Rome, London, New York, or Paris.
The different stories that linger around this creature, witness a specific kind of
cultural transmission that, over the centuries, through superstition and paganism have linked Greek mythology and oral culture to Christianity.
TEMPORAL GAPS in
cultural transmission can be quite puzzling.
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