On the controversy over non-human culture: The reasons for disagreement and possible directions toward consensus

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 109, Issue Part A, 2014, Pages 95-100

  Pagnotta, Murillo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anthropology; Culture; Ethology; Psychology

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURE; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONSENSUS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHOLOGY; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GROOMING; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; NONHUMAN CULTURE; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOLOGY; THEORY; ANIMAL; NOMENCLATURE;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONSENSUS; CULTURE; HUMANS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84918548041     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2014.04.008     Document Type: Article

References (61)

1. Bateson P.P.G., Martin P. Design for a Life: How Behaviour Develops 1999, Cape, London.
2. Boas F. Anthropology. Encyclopedia of Social Sciences 1930, Macmillan, New York. E.R.A. Seligman, A. Johnson (Eds.).
3. Boesch C. Teaching in wild chimpanzees. Anim. Behav. 1991, 41(3):530-532.
4. Boesch C. Is culture a golden barrier between human and chimpanzee?. Evol. Anthropol. 2003, 12:82-91.
5. Boesch C., Boesch H. Sex differences in the use of natural hammers by wild chimpanzees: a preliminary report. J. Hum. Evol. 1981, 10:585-593.
6. Boesch C., Boesch H. Possible causes of sex differences in the use of natural hammers by wild chimpanzees. J. Hum. Evol. 1984, 13:415-440.
7. Boesch C., Boesch H. Hunting behavior of wild chimpanzees in the Tai' National Park. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 1989, 78:547-573.
8. Boesch C., Tomasello M. Chimpanzee and human cultures. Curr. Anthropol. 1998, 39(5):591-614.
9. Dawkins R. The Selfish Gene 1976, Oxford University Press, New York.
10. Nature and Society 1996, Routledge, London. P. Descola, G. Pálsson (Eds.).
11. Fragaszy D.M., Perry S. Towards a biology of traditions. The Biology of Traditions: Models and Evidence 2003, 1-32. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. D.M. Fragaszy, S. Perry (Eds.).
12. Fox-Keller E. The Mirage of a Space Between Nature and Nurture 2010, Duke University Press, Durham.
13. Galef B.G. Social transmission of acquired behavior: a discussion of tradition and social learning in vertebrates. Adv. Stud. Behav. 1976, 6:77-100.
14. Galef B.G. Traditions in animals. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, vol. 12 2006, 12-15. Elsevier, Oxford.
15. Galef B.G. Culture in animals?. The Question of Animal Culture 2009, 222-246. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. K.N. Laland, B.G. Galef (Eds.).
16. Geertz C. The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays by Clifford Geertz 1973, Basic Books, New York.
17. Gibson J.J. The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception 1979, Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
18. Goodall J. Tool-using and aimed throwing in a community of free-living chimpanzees. Nature 1964, 201:1264-1266.
19. Gottlieb G. Individual Development and Evolution: The Genesis of Novel Behavior 1992, Oxford University Press, New York.
20. Grant B.R., Grant P.R. Cultural inheritance of song and its role in the evolution of Darwin's finches. Evolution 1996, 50(6):2471-2487.
21. Hirata S., Watanabe K., Kawai M. Sweet-potato washing revisited. Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior 2001, 487-508. Springer, Tokyo. T. Matsuzawa (Ed.).
22. Hohmann G., Fruth B. Culture in Bonobos? Between-species and within-species variation in behavior. Curr. Anthropol. 2003, 44(4):562-571.
23. Hogan J.A. Development of behavior systems. Developmental Psychobiology 2001, vol. 13:229-279. Kluwer Academic, New York. E.M. Blass (Ed.).
24. Imanishi K. The evolution of human nature. Ningen [Man] 1952, 36-94. Mainichi-shinbunsha, Tokyo, (in Japanese). K. Imanishi (Ed.).
25. Imanishi K. The world of living things. A Japanese View of Nature: The World of Living Things by Kinji Imanishi 2002, Routledge Curzon, New York. P. Asquith (Ed.).
26. Ingold T. Commentary on Boesch and Tomasello. Curr. Anthropol. 1998, 39(5):591-604.
27. Ingold T. The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill 2000, Routledge, London.
28. Ingold T. Beyond biology and culture. The meaning of evolution in a relational world. Soc. Anthropol. 2004, 12(2):209-221.
29. Kawai M. Newly-acquired pre-cultural behavior of the natural troop of Japanese monkeys on Koshima Islet. Primates 1965, 6:1-30.
30. Kawamura S. The process of sub-culture propagation among Japanese macaques. Primates 1959, 2:43-60.
31. Kroeber A.L. The superorganic. Am. Anthropol. (New Ser.) 1917, 19(2):163-213.
32. Kroeber A.L. Sub-human culture beginnings. Quart. Rev. Biol. 1928, 3(3):325-342.
33. Kroeber A.L., Kluckhohn C. Culture: a critical review of concepts and definitions. Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, vol. XLVII, no. 1 1952, Peabody Museum, Cambridge.
34. Kuo Z.-Y. The Dynamics of Behavioral Development 1967, Random House, New York.
35. Lakatos I. Falsification and the methodology of scientific research. Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge 1970, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. I. Lakatos, A. Musgrave (Eds.).
36. The Question of Animal Culture 2009, Harvard University Press, Cambridge. K.N. Laland, B.G. Galef (Eds.).
37. Laland K.N., Galef B.G. Introduction. The Question of Animal Culture 2009, Harvard University Press, Cambridge. K.N. Laland, B.G. Galef (Eds.).
38. Latour B. We Have Never Been Modern 1993, Cambridge, Harvard University Press.
39. Latour B. Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-network-theory 2005, Oxford University Press, New York.
40. Lehrman D.S. A critique of Konrad Lorenz's theory of instinctive behavior. Quart. Rev. Biol. 1953, 28:337-363.
41. Lévi-Strauss C. Structural Anthropology 1963, Basic Books, New York.
42. Lévi-Strauss C. The View From Afar 1992, Chicago University Press, Chicago.
43. Lewontin R.C. Gene, organism, and environment. Evolution: From Molecules to Men 1983, 273-285. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. D.S. Bendall (Ed.).
44. Malinowski B. Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea 1932, George Routledge & sons, London.
45. McGrew W.C. Chimpanzee Material Culture: Implications for Human Evolution 1992, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
46. McGrew W.C. Ten dispatches from the chimpanzee culture wars. Animal Social Complexity: Intelligence, Culture and Individualized Societies 2003, Harvard University Press, Cambridge. F.B. de Waal, P.L. Tyack (Eds.).
47. McGrew W.C. The Cultured Chimpanzee: Reflections on Cultural Primatology 2004, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
48. McGrew W.C., Tutin C.E.G. Evidence for a social custom in wild chimpanzees?. Man (New Ser.) 1978, 13(2):234-251.
49. Nakamura M., Nishida T. Subtle behavioral variation in wild chimpanzees, with special reference to Imanishi's concept of kaluchua. Primates 2006, 47:35-42.
50. Nishida T. The social group of wild chimpanzees in the Mahali Mountains. Primates 1968, 9:167-224.
51. Nishida T. Local traditions and cultural transmission. Primate Societies 1987, 462-474. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. B. Smuts, D.L. Cheney, R.M. Seyfarth, R.W. Wrangham, T.T. Struhsaker (Eds.).
52. Oyama S. The Ontogeny of Information: Developmental Systems and Evolution 1985, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
53. Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution 2001, MIT Press, Cambridge. S. Oyama, P.E. Griffiths, R.D. Gray (Eds.).
54. Rendell L., Whitehead H. Culture in whales and dolphins. Behav. Brain Sci. 2001, 24:309-382.
55. Schneirla T.C. Interrelationships of the innate and the acquired in instinctive behavior. L'instinct dans le comportement des animaux et de l'homme 1956, 387-452. Masson, Paris. P.-P. Grasse (Ed.).
56. Tomasello M. Human culture in evolutionary perspective. Advances in Culture and Psychology 2011, Oxford University Press, Oxford. M.J. Gelfand, C.-Y. Chiu, Y.-Y. Hong (Eds.).
57. Tylor E.B. Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art and Customs 1874, H. Holt and Company, New York.
58. Van Schaik C.P., Ancrenaz M., Borgen G., Galdikas B., Knott C.D., Singleton I., Suzuki A., Utami S.S., Merrill M. Orangutan cultures and the evolution of material culture. Science 2003, 299:102-105.
59. Washburn S.L., Benedict B. Non-Human primate culture. Man (New Ser.) 1979, 14(1):163-164.
60. White L. The Science of Culture: A Study of Man and Civilization 1949, Grove Press, New York.
61. Whiten A., Goodall J., McGrew W.C., Nishida T., Reynolds V., Sugiyama Y., Tutin C.R.G., Wrangham R.W., Boesch C. Cultures in chimpanzees. Nature 1999, 399:682-685.