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Categories and gatherings: Group selection and the mythology of cultural anthropology

Palmer, Craig T. ; Fredrickson, B.Eric ; Tilley, Christopher F.

Ethology and Sociobiology, 1997-09, Vol.18 (5), p.291-308 [Periódico revisado por pares]

New York: Elsevier Inc

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  • Título:
    Categories and gatherings: Group selection and the mythology of cultural anthropology
  • Autor: Palmer, Craig T. ; Fredrickson, B.Eric ; Tilley, Christopher F.
  • Assuntos: Anthropology ; Categorical perception ; Classification ; Cultural anthropology ; Gathering ; Group behaviour ; Group selection ; Human evolution ; Methodological Problems ; Natural selection ; Organizations (Social) ; Social Anthropology ; Social behaviour ; Social Groups ; Social organization ; Sociobiology
  • É parte de: Ethology and Sociobiology, 1997-09, Vol.18 (5), p.291-308
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  • Descrição: If the term “group selection” is to have any meaning beyond mere semantics, it must refer to situations where individuals live in groups. Although the terminology of cultural anthropology suggests that humans live in bounded and enduring gatherings that might serve as group “vehicles” of selection, we argue that none of the terms asserted to be such an entity (i.e., clans, lineages, villages, bands, tribes, populations, societies, and cultures) fulfill this requirement. This is because these terms refer to: (1) reified abstractions, (2) groups only in the sense of categories of people instead of groups in the sense of people gathered together, or (3) gatherings that are much too fluid and fuzzy in their membership to be “vehicles.” Following Murdock (1972), we refer to this obsession with groups as “anthropology's mythology,” and we suggest that it is the result of our evolved capacity for categorical perception. Although classifying phenomena into categories is useful in many situations, it has hindered our understanding of human social organization and human evolution.
  • Editor: New York: Elsevier Inc
  • Idioma: Inglês
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