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The substance of cultural evolution: Culturally framed systems of social organization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2014

Dwight W. Read
Dwight W. Read*
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Department of Anthropology and Department of Statistics, University of California – Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90094. dread@anthro.ucla.edu http://www.ucla.edu/
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Abstract

Models of cultural evolution need to address not only the organizational aspects of human societies, but also the complexity and structure of cultural idea systems that frame their systems of organization. These cultural idea systems determine a framework within which behaviors take place and provide mutually understood meanings for behavior from the perspective of both agent and recipient that are critical for the coherence of human systems of social organization.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , June 2014 , pp. 270 - 271
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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