The Cultural Animal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cultural Animal write by Roy F. Baumeister. This book was released on 2005-02-10. The Cultural Animal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a coherent explanation of human nature, which is to say how people think, act, and feel, what they want, and how they interact with each other. The central idea is that the human psyche was designed by evolution to `nable people to create and sustain culture.
Becoming Wild
Becoming Wild - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Becoming Wild write by Carl Safina. This book was released on 2020-04-14. Becoming Wild available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 "In this superbly articulate cri de coeur, Safina gives us a new way of looking at the natural world that is radically different."—The Washington Post New York Times bestselling author Carl Safina brings readers close to three non-human cultures—what they do, why they do it, and how life is for them. A New York Times Notable Books of 2020 Some believe that culture is strictly a human phenomenon. But this book reveals cultures of other-than-human beings in some of Earth’s remaining wild places. It shows how if you’re a sperm whale, a scarlet macaw, or a chimpanzee, you too come to understand yourself as an individual within a particular community that does things in specific ways, that has traditions. Alongside genes, culture is a second form of inheritance, passed through generations as pools of learned knowledge. As situations change, social learning—culture—allows behaviors to adjust much faster than genes can adapt. Becoming Wild brings readers into intimate proximity with various nonhuman individuals in their free-living communities. It presents a revelatory account of how animals function beyond our usual view. Safina shows that for non-humans and humans alike, culture comprises the answers to the question, “How do we live here?” It unites individuals within a group identity. But cultural groups often seek to avoid, or even be hostile toward, other factions. By showing that this is true across species, Safina illuminates why human cultural tensions remain maddeningly intractable despite the arbitrariness of many of our differences. Becoming Wild takes readers behind the curtain of life on Earth, to witness from a new vantage point the most world-saving of perceptions: how we are all connected.
The Question of Animal Culture
The Question of Animal Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Question of Animal Culture write by Kevin N. Laland. This book was released on 2009-02-16. The Question of Animal Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fifty years ago, a troop of Japanese macaques was observed washing sandy sweet potatoes in a stream, sending ripples through the fields of ethology, comparative psychology, and cultural anthropology. The issue of animal culture has been hotly debated ever since. Now Kevin Laland and Bennett Galef have gathered key voices in the often rancorous debate to summarize the views along the continuum from “Culture? Of course!” to “Culture? Of course not!” The result is essential reading for anyone interested in the validity of animal culture, and what it might say about our own.
Our Children and Other Animals
Our Children and Other Animals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Our Children and Other Animals write by Dr Kate Stewart. This book was released on 2014-11-28. Our Children and Other Animals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on the socialization of the human use of other animals as resources in contemporary Western society, this book explores the cultural reproduction of human-nonhuman animal relations in childhood. With close attention to the dominant practices through which children encounter animals and mainstream representations of animals in children's culture - whether in terms of the selective exposure of children to animals as ‘pets’ or as food in the home or in school, or the representation of animals in mass media and social media - Our Children and Other Animals reveals the interconnectedness of studies of childhood, culture and human-animal relations. In doing so it establishes the importance of human-animal relations in sociology, by describing the sociological importance of animals in children's lives and children in animals’ lives. Presenting a new typology of the various kinds of human-animal relationship, this conceptually innovative book constitutes a clear demonstration of the relevance of sociology to the interdisciplinary field of human-animal relations and will appeal to readers across the social sciences with interests in sociology, childhood studies, cultural and media studies and human-animal interaction.
Schooling the Symbolic Animal
Schooling the Symbolic Animal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Schooling the Symbolic Animal write by Bradley A. Levinson. This book was released on 2000. Schooling the Symbolic Animal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This anthology introduces some of the most influential literature shaping our understanding of the social and cultural foundations of education today. Together the selections provide students a range of approaches for interpreting and designing educational experiences worthy of the multicultural societies of our present and future. The reprinted selections are contextualized in new interpretive essays written specifically for this volume.
