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    <title>Shakespeare in the Bush | Natural History Magazine</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- Exactly as I remembered it from reading it age 10 or 12.]]></description>
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    <title>Narratives imagined in response to instrumental music reveal culture-bounded intersubjectivity | PNAS</title>
    <dc:date>2022-01-31T14:32:25+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The scientific literature sometimes considers music an abstract stimulus, devoid of explicit meaning, and at other times considers it a universal language. Here, individuals in three geographically distinct locations spanning two cultures performed a highly unconstrained task: they provided free-response descriptions of stories they imagined while listening to instrumental music. Tools from natural language processing revealed that listeners provide highly similar stories to the same musical excerpts when they share an underlying culture, but when they do not, the generated stories show limited overlap. These results paint a more complex picture of music’s power: music can generate remarkably similar stories in listeners’ minds, but the degree to which these imagined narratives are shared depends on the degree to which culture is shared across listeners. Thus, music is neither an abstract stimulus nor a universal language but has semantic affordances shaped by culture, requiring more sustained attention from psychology."]]></description>
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    <title>Cultural extinction in evolutionary perspective | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core</title>
    <dc:date>2021-04-30T19:20:11+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Cultural diversity is disappearing quickly. Whilst a phylogenetic approach makes explicit the continuous extinction of cultures, and the generation of new ones, cultural evolutionary changes such as the rise of agriculture or more recently colonisation can cause periods of mass cultural extinction. At the current rate, 90% of languages will become extinct or moribund by the end of this century. Unlike biological extinction, cultural extinction does not necessarily involve genetic extinction or even deaths, but results from the disintegration of a social entity and discontinuation of culture-specific behaviours. Here we propose an analytical framework to examine the phenomenon of cultural extinction. When examined over millennia, extinctions of cultural traits or institutions can be studied in a phylogenetic comparative framework that incorporates archaeological data on ancestral states. Over decades or centuries, cultural extinction can be studied in a behavioural ecology framework to investigate how the fitness consequences of cultural behaviours and population dynamics shift individual behaviours away from the traditional norms. Frequency-dependent costs and benefits are key to understanding both the origin and the loss of cultural diversity. We review recent evolutionary studies that have informed cultural extinction processes and discuss avenues of future studies."]]></description>
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    <title>Theory of Strategic Uncertainty and Cultural Diversity | The Review of Economic Studies | Oxford Academic</title>
    <dc:date>2021-02-14T05:33:56+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We identify a new mechanism through which cultural diversity affects economic outcomes, based on a model of culture as shared cognition. Under this view, cultural diversity matters because it increases strategic uncertainty. The model can help better understand a variety of disparate evidence, including why homogeneous societies can be more conformist, why diverse societies may get stuck in a low-trust trap, why companies with a strong culture may fail to adopt superior work practices, and why autocratic rulers in diverse societies may overinvest in state capacity."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB game_theory cultural_differences learning_in_games kets.willemien</dc:subject>
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    <dc:date>2020-12-17T20:48:54+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Beyond Social Contagion: Associative Diffusion and the Emergence of Cultural Variation - Amir Goldberg, Sarah K. Stein, 2018</title>
    <dc:date>2019-11-11T00:15:16+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Network models of diffusion predominantly think about cultural variation as a product of social contagion. But culture does not spread like a virus. We propose an alternative explanation we call associative diffusion. Drawing on two insights from research in cognition—that meaning inheres in cognitive associations between concepts, and that perceived associations constrain people’s actions—we introduce a model in which, rather than beliefs or behaviors, the things being transmitted between individuals are perceptions about what beliefs or behaviors are compatible with one another. Conventional contagion models require the assumption that networks are segregated to explain cultural variation. We show, in contrast, that the endogenous emergence of cultural differentiation can be entirely attributable to social cognition and does not require a segregated network or a preexisting division into groups. Moreover, we show that prevailing assumptions about the effects of network topology do not hold when diffusion is associative."

--- Preprint version: https://web.stanford.edu/~amirgo/docs/beyond.pdf

(I'm not sure that this _is_ really an alternative explanation.  Or, rather, it would be an explanation for cultural polarization wtihin a densely-connected community, but not an explanation for associations between cultural traits and social identities.  Also, I think their conclusion that small-world networks lead to less "meaningful" cultural differentiation than do scale-free networks may be an artifact of the way they're using mutual information.  If there was one community and everyone in it enacted the same practices, they'd get an MI of 0, but that wouldn't make them meaningless....)]]></description>
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    <title>Universalism without Uniformity: Explorations in Mind and Culture, Cassaniti, Menon</title>
    <dc:date>2017-11-06T21:20:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/U/bo27035148</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["One of the major questions of cultural psychology is how to take diversity seriously while acknowledging our shared humanity. This collection, edited by Julia L. Cassaniti and Usha Menon, brings together leading scholars in the field to reconsider that question and explore the complex mechanisms that connect culture and the human mind.
"The contributors to Universalism without Uniformity offer tools for bridging silos that have historically separated anthropology’s attention to culture and psychology’s interest in universal mental processes. Throughout, they seek to answer intricate yet fundamental questions about why we are motivated to find meaning in everything around us and, in turn, how we constitute the cultural worlds we inhabit through our intentional involvement in them. Laying bare entrenched disciplinary blind spots, this book offers a trove of insights on issues such as morality, emotional functioning, and conceptions of the self across cultures. Filled with impeccable empirical research coupled with broadly applicable theoretical reflections on taking psychological diversity seriously, Universalism without Uniformity breaks new ground in the study of mind and culture. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted psychology cultural_differences cultural_transmission_of_cognitive_tools</dc:subject>
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    <title>Cultural Capital and meritocratic circularity | MattBruenig | Politics</title>
    <dc:date>2015-06-03T15:47:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mattbruenig.com/2015/05/31/cultural-capital-and-meritocratic-circularity/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Cf. Gellner on nationalism.]]></description>
<dc:subject>inequality cultural_differences meritocracy class_struggles_in_america</dc:subject>
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    <title>Probabilistic cognition in two indigenous Mayan groups</title>
    <dc:date>2014-12-06T17:13:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.pnas.org/content/111/48/17075.abstract</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Is there a sense of chance shared by all individuals, regardless of their schooling or culture? To test whether the ability to make correct probabilistic evaluations depends on educational and cultural guidance, we investigated probabilistic cognition in preliterate and prenumerate Kaqchikel and K’iche’, two indigenous Mayan groups, living in remote areas of Guatemala. Although the tested individuals had no formal education, they performed correctly in tasks in which they had to consider prior and posterior information, proportions and combinations of possibilities. Their performance was indistinguishable from that of Mayan school children and Western controls. Our results provide evidence for the universal nature of probabilistic cognition."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB to_read cognitive_development cognitive_science psychology cultural_differences</dc:subject>
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    <title>Human preferences for sexually dimorphic faces may be evolutionarily novel</title>
    <dc:date>2014-10-16T20:59:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.pnas.org/content/111/40/14388.abstract.html?etoc</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A large literature proposes that preferences for exaggerated sex typicality in human faces (masculinity/femininity) reflect a long evolutionary history of sexual and social selection. This proposal implies that dimorphism was important to judgments of attractiveness and personality in ancestral environments. It is difficult to evaluate, however, because most available data come from large-scale, industrialized, urban populations. Here, we report the results for 12 populations with very diverse levels of economic development. Surprisingly, preferences for exaggerated sex-specific traits are only found in the novel, highly developed environments. Similarly, perceptions that masculine males look aggressive increase strongly with development and, specifically, urbanization. These data challenge the hypothesis that facial dimorphism was an important ancestral signal of heritable mate value. One possibility is that highly developed environments provide novel opportunities to discern relationships between facial traits and behavior by exposing individuals to large numbers of unfamiliar faces, revealing patterns too subtle to detect with smaller samples."

--- Another possibility is that these are recent cultural conventions!  (Maybe they have some subtle way of ruling that out...)]]></description>
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    <title>Culture-dependent strategies in coordination games</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-29T16:17:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.pnas.org/content/111/Supplement_3/10889.abstract.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We examine different populations’ play in coordination games in online experiments with over 1,000 study participants. Study participants played a two-player coordination game that had multiple equilibria: two equilibria with highly asymmetric payoffs and another equilibrium with symmetric payoffs but a slightly lower total payoff. Study participants were predominantly from India and the United States. Study participants residing in India played the strategies leading to asymmetric payoffs significantly more frequently than study participants residing in the United States who showed a greater play of the strategy leading to the symmetric payoffs. In addition, when prompted to play asymmetrically, the population from India responded even more significantly than those from the United States. Overall, study participants’ predictions of how others would play were more accurate when the other player was from their own populations, and they coordinated significantly more frequently and earned significantly higher payoffs when matched with other study participants from their own population than when matched across populations."]]></description>
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    <title>The New Elitists - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-10T18:33:44+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The essay is can't quite seem to decide if it's a historical look at how elites have differentiated/justified themselves, and how that's changed; a (dubiously functionalist) explanation of why contemporary elites are culturally omnivorous rather than cultivating a narrow canon of Good Taste*; or an attempt to slap the beneficiaries of the system into some sort of acknowledgment of the advantages they've been given, and responsibility to those without them.  I strongly suspect the malign hand of an editor.

*: Suppose that, counterfactually, current elite preferences _did_ run to a narrow canon of Good Taste, but the social origins were the same.  Would it not be just as easy to use these means to explain _that_ as a consequence of the meritocratic aspects of elite recruitment, converging on a common and distinctive core of cultural markers the same way that, factually, educated elites converge on a common accent and dialect of English?]]></description>
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    <title>Cognitive Variations: Reflections on the Unity and Diversity of the Human Mind by Geoffrey E R Lloyd - Powell's Books</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-30T21:00:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9780199214617</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Sir Geoffrey Lloyd presents a cross-disciplinary study of the problems posed by the unity and diversity of the human mind. On the one hand, as humans we all share broadly the same anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, and certain psychological capabilities--the capacity to learn a language, for instance. On the other, different individuals and groups have very different talents, tastes, and beliefs, for instance about how they see themselves, other humans and the world around them. These issues are highly charged, for any denial of psychic unity savors of racism, while many assertions of psychic diversity raise the specters of arbitrary relativism, the incommensurability of beliefs systems and their mutual unintelligibility.
"Lloyd surveys a fascinating range of subjects, examining where different types of arguments, scientific, philosophical, anthropological and historical can take us. He discusses color perception, spatial cognition, animal and plant taxonomy, the emotions, ideas of health and well-being, concepts of the self, agency and causation, varying perceptions of the distinction between nature and culture, and reasoning itself. To avoid the pitfalls of misleading dichotomies (especially between cross-cultural universalism and cultural relativism) he pays due attention to the multidimensionality of the phenomena to be apprehended and to the diversity of manners, or styles, of apprehending them. The weight to be given to different factors, physical, biological, psychological, cultural, ideological, varies as between different subject-areas and sometimes even within a single area. He uses recent work in social anthropology, linguistics, cognitive science, neurophysiology, and the history of ideas to redefine the problems and clarify how our evident psychic diversity can be reconciled with our shared humanity."]]></description>
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    <title>Language Log » Wright is wrong about sociology as well as basketball</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-17T03:38:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3775</link>
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    <title>The Evolution of Cultural Diversity: A Phylogenetic Approach by Ruth Mace - Powell's Books</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-05T17:31:42+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Virtually all aspects of human behavior show enormous variation both within and between cultural groups, including material culture, social organization and language. Thousands of distinct cultural groups exist: about 6,000 languages are spoken today, and it is thought that a far greater number of languages existed in the past but became extinct. Using a Darwinian approach, this book seeks to explain this rich cultural variation. There are a number of theoretical reasons to believe that cultural diversification might be tree-like, that is phylogenetic: material and non-material culture is clearly inherited by descendants, there is descent with modification, and languages appear to be hierarchically related. There are also a number of theoretical reasons to believe that cultural evolution is not tree-like: cultural inheritance is not Mendelian and can indeed be vertical, horizontal or oblique, evidence of borrowing abounds, cultures are not necessarily biological populations and can be transient and complex. Here, for the first time, this title tackles these questions of cultural evolution empirically and quantitatively, using a range of case studies from Africa, the Pacific, Europe, Asia and America. A range of powerful theoretical tools developed in evolutionary biology is used to test detailed hypotheses about historical patterns and adaptive functions in cultural evolution. Evidence is amassed from archaeological, linguist and cultural datasets, from both recent and historical or pre-historical time periods. A unifying theme is that the phylogenetic approach is a useful and powerful framework, both for describing the evolutionary history of these traits, and also for testing adaptive hypotheses about their evolution and co-evolution. Contributors include archaeologists, anthropologists, evolutionary biologists and linguists, and this book will be of great interest to all those involved in these areas."]]></description>
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    <title>CJO - Abstract - Without Fear or Shame: Lynching, Capital Punishment and the Subculture of Violence in the American South</title>
    <dc:date>2010-08-09T04:16:37+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>_The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen_ (Warwick Anderson)</title>
    <dc:date>2010-01-01T16:42:17+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Language Log » The butterfly and the elephant</title>
    <dc:date>2009-11-28T17:32:46+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Phillips, A.: Multiculturalism without Culture.</title>
    <dc:date>2009-04-10T20:16:32+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Language Log » Non-Whorfian linguistic determinism</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-03T19:04:12+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is... odd.
]]></description>
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    <title>Language Log » David Brooks, Social Psychologist</title>
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    <link>http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=478</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Memo to self: Ask Fred what's up with that paper.
]]></description>
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