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Cultural traits and cultural integration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2006

R. Lee Lyman
R. Lee Lyman*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri–Columbia, Columbia, MO65211
*
lymanr@missouri.edu
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Abstract:

Modern efforts to model cultural transmission have struggled to identify a unit of cultural transmission and particular transmission processes. Anthropologists of the early twentieth century discussed cultural traits as units of transmission equivalent to recipes (rules and ingredients) and identified integration as a signature process and effect of transmission.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , August 2006 , pp. 357 - 358
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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