The influence of social niche on cultural niche construction: Modelling changes in belief about marriage form in Taiwan

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1566, 2011, Pages 901-917

  Lipatov, Mikhail ^a   Brown, Melissa J ^a   Feldman, Marcus W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonial household registers; Cultural change; Economic index; Horizontal cultural transmission; Uxorilocal marriage; Virilocal marriage

Indexed keywords

COLONIAL LEGACY; CULTURAL CHANGE; CULTURAL INFLUENCE; DATA INTERPRETATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ETHNICITY; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; MARRIAGE; NICHE; NUMERICAL MODEL;

TAIWAN;

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; MARRIAGE; MORALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TAIWAN; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CULTURAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MARRIAGE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORALS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TAIWAN;

EID: 79958258998     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0303     Document Type: Article

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