Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. List of Tables ix
5. Preface x
6. Introduction: On the Concept of Cultural Transmission 1
7. Chapter 1 What Animals other than Primates can tell us about Human Cultural Transmission 55
8. Chapter 2 Culture in Non-human Primates: Definitions and Evidence 80
9. Chapter 3 Cultural Transmission Theory and Fossil Hominin Behaviour: A Discuss ion of Epistemological 102
10. Chapter 4 Studying Cultural Transmission with in an Interdisciplinary Cultural Evolutionary Framework 131
11. Chapter 5 Do Transmission Isolating Mechanisms (TRIMS) Influence Cultural Evolution ? Evidence from Patterns of Textile Diversity 148
12. Chapter 6 Co-evolution between Bentwood Box Traditions and Languages on the Pacific Northwest Coast 165
13. Chapter 7 The Transmission of Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Skills among Tsimane’ in the Bolivian Amazon 191
14. Chapter 8 Processual Perspectives on Traditional Environmental Knowledge: Continuity, Erosion, Transformation, Innovation 213
15. Chapter 9 Transmitting Penan Basketry Knowledge and Practice 266
16. Chapter 10 Plant Exchange and Social Performance: Implications for Knowledge Transfer in British Allotments 300
17. Chapter 11 Thinking Like a Cheese: Towards an Ecological Understanding of the Reproduction of Knowledge in Contemporary Artisan Cheese Making 320
18. Chapter 12 Lineages of Cultural Transmission 346
19. Notes on Contributors 361
20. Index 367