Human universals, human nature & human culture

Daedalus

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 47-54

  Brown, Donald E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 33746871747     PISSN: 00115266     EISSN: 15486192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0011526042365645     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Alfred L. Kroeber, "Classifieatory Systems of Relationship," Journal of theRoyal Anthropological Institute 39 (1909): 77 - 84.
2. The making of this documentary is described in Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson, FirstContact : New Guinea Highlanders Encounter the Outside World (New York: Penguin, 1987).
3. It is sometimes suggested that there are some beliefs that have been with humans fromthe earliest times not because they are obviously useful, but because there was little or nothing to expose their falsity and thus to hinder their spread.
4. David Bidney, "Human Nature and the Cultural Process," American Anthropologist 49 (1947): 387.
5. Lawrence A. Hirschfeld, Race in the Making: Cognition, Culture, and the Child's Construction of Human Kinds (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1996).
6. Ronald Hyam, Britain's Imperial Century, 1815 -1914 :A Study of Empire and Expansion (London : B. T. Batsford, 1976).
7. See also Hyam, Empire and Sexuality: The British Experience(Manchester: University ofManchester Press, 1990).
8. Ralph Linton, The Tree of Culture (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955).
9. This paper has benefited from comments by Donald Symons. References for the assertions made here may be found in Donald E. Brown, Human Universals (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991).
10. Brown, "Human Nature and History," History and Theory 38 (4) (1999): 138 - 157.
11. Brown, "Human Universals and Their Implications," in Neil Roughley, ed., Being Humans: Anthropological Universality and Particularity in Transdisciplinary Perspectives(Berlin:Walter de Gruyter, 2000), 156-174.