Culture : how to make it work in a world of hybrids

Summary: Michael Agar explores two meanings of culture: culture as a label for the beliefs and practices of a specific group, and culture as marking the boundary between modern humans and our ancestors together with the rest of the animal kingdom (although this book acknowledges that that boundary has changed to a slippery slope). By looking back at the emergence of language and culture, through a broad range of the social and natural sciences, those human universals that make connections across human differences possible?as well as those that constrain that ability?are identified. This book concludes with a discussion of social perspective taking as a promising approach toward the development of a shared “languaculture” by any group of diverse?hybrid?humans who need to work together to accomplish whatever task is at hand."--back cover

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ISBN: 9781538118122 (ePub ebook)
ISBN: 1538118114
ISBN: 9781538118115
ISBN: 1538118106
ISBN: 9781538118108
Physical Description: xi, 141 pages ; 24 cm
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Publisher: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2019]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Culture -- Language -- How did languaculture take off so fast? -- Why did it stop working? -- The hybrids -- Social perspective taking -- SPT in living color.