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Provedor de dados: | 7
País: | Canada
Título: | Multilevel processes and cultural adaptation: examples from past and present small-scale societies
Autores: | Balbo, Andrea L; Climate Change and Security (CLISEC), KlimaCampus, Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), University of Hamburg; Complexity and Socioecological Dynamics (CaSEs), IMF-CSIC; balbo@cantab.net; Mesoudi, Alex; Department of Biosciences, University of Exeter; A.Mesoudi@exeter.ac.uk; Richerson, Peter J; University of California, Davis; University College London; pjricherson@ucdavis.edu; Rubio-Campillo, Xavier; Computer Applications in Science &amp; Engineering, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC); xavier.rubio@bsc.es; Shennan, Stephen; Institute of Archaeology, University College London; s.shennan@ucl.ac.uk.
Data: | 2016-10-11
Ano: | 2016
Palavras-chave: | Cultural adaptation; Cultural evolution; Multilevel selection; Resilience.
Resumo: | The last two decades have seen a proliferation of research frameworks that emphasise the importance of understanding adaptive processes that happen at different levels. We contribute to this growing body of literature by exploring how cultural (mal)adaptive dynamics relate to multilevel social-ecological processes occurring at different scales, where the lower levels combine into new units with new organizations, functions, and emergent properties or collective behaviors. After a brief review of the concept of &amp;#8220;cultural adaptation&amp;#8221; from the perspective of cultural evolutionary theory, the core of the paper is constructed around the exploration of multilevel processes occurring at the temporal, spatial, social, and political scales. We do so by using insights from cultural evolutionary theory and by examining small-scale societies as case studies. In each section, we discuss the importance of the selected scale for understanding cultural adaptation and then present an example that illustrates how multilevel processes in the selected scale help explain observed patterns in the cultural adaptive process. The last section of the paper discusses the potential of modeling and computer simulation for studying multilevel processes in cultural adaptation. We conclude by highlighting how elements from cultural evolutionary theory might enrich the multilevel process discussion in resilience theory.
Tipo: | Peer-Reviewed Insight
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | vol21/iss4/art2/
Editor: | Resilience Alliance
Formato: | text/html application/pdf
Fonte: | Ecology and Society; Vol. 21, No. 4 (2016)