Author: Alexandre Livingstone-Smith
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book has papers in English and papers in French Section 2 Archaeometry Acts of the XIVth UISPP Congress, University of Liège, Belgium, 2-8 September 2001: Colloque/Symposium 2.1
Author: Nathalie Gontier
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2006-07-25
Total Pages: 499
ISBN-13: 1402033958
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For the first time in history, scholars working on language and culture from within an evolutionary epistemological framework, and thereby emphasizing complementary or deviating theories of the Modern Synthesis, were brought together. Of course there have been excellent conferences on Evolutionary Epistemology in the past, as well as numerous conferences on the topics of Language and Culture. However, until now these disciplines had not been brought together into one all-encompassing conference. Moreover, previously there never had been such stress on alternative and complementary theories of the Modern Synthesis. Today we know that natural selection and evolution are far from synonymous and that they do not explain isomorphic phenomena in the world. ‘Taking Darwin seriously’ is the way to go, but today the time has come to take alternative and complementary theories that developed after the Modern Synthesis, equally seriously, and, furthermore, to examine how language and culture can merit from these diverse disciplines. As this volume will make clear, a specific inter- and transdisciplinary approach is one of the next crucial steps that needs to be taken, if we ever want to unravel the secrets of phenomena such as language and culture.