Do transmission isolating mechanisms (TRIMS) influence cultural evolution?: Evidence from patterns of textile diversity with in and between Iranian tribal groups

Understanding Cultural Transmission in Anthropology: A Critical Synthesis

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 148-164

  Tehrani, Jamshid J ^a   Collard, Mark ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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