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Understanding Cultural Traits

A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Cultural Diversity

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  1. Fabrizio Panebianco

    1. Paris School of Economics, Paris, France

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  2. Emanuele Serrelli

    1. CISEPS-CenterforInterdisciplinaryStudies, University of Milano - Bicocca, Milano, Italy

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  • Offers a gateway to a fundamental concept, the basis for understanding culture

  • Is an exercise in thinking across boundaries

  • Shows great potential for public policy and intercultural research

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Cultural Traits and Multidisciplinary Dialogue

    • Fabrizio Panebianco, Emanuele Serrelli
    Pages 1-20

  3. Understanding Cultural Diversity. Culture, Cultural Traits and Cultural Changes Between Global and Local Scales

    • Vincenzo Matera
    Pages 21-42

  4. Cultural Traits and Identity

    • Ugo E. M. Fabietti
    Pages 43-59

  5. The Diffusion of a Museum Exhibit: The Case of the Transparent Man

    • Elena Canadelli
    Pages 61-80

  6. The ‘Incompetent Subject’ in the Kingdom of Technical Terms. A Possible Role of Pedagogy in the Study of Cultural Traits

    • Rossana Brambilla
    Pages 81-100

  7. The Unary Trait of Psychoanalysis. Identification, Transmission, Generation

    • Matteo Bonazzi
    Pages 101-115

  8. Cultural Diversities Across and Within Cultures: The Bicultural Mind

    • Olivia Realdon, Valentino Zurloni
    Pages 117-134

  9. Birth and Evolution of Jazz as Effects of Cultural Transfers

    • Stefano Zenni
    Pages 135-143

  10. Geographical Boundaries as Places of Meeting and Diffusion of Cultural Traits

    • Stefano Malatesta, Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg, Enrico Squarcina
    Pages 145-160

  11. Maps, Diagrams and Charts: Making the Cultural Trait Visible

    • Fulvio Carmagnola
    Pages 161-178

  12. Evolutionary Genetics and Cultural Traits in a ‘Body of Theory’ Perspective

    • Emanuele Serrelli
    Pages 179-199

  13. Cultural Traits in Economic Theory

    • Fabrizio Panebianco
    Pages 201-220

  14. International Cooperation and Cultural Transmission

    • Isa Gama
    Pages 221-247

  15. Rethinking Organizational Culture: The Role of Generational Subcultures

    • Alessandra Lazazzara
    Pages 249-271

  16. From Material Remains to Culture: The Possibilities and Limits of Archaeology in Reconstructing Ancient People

    • Viviana Ardesia
    Pages 273-285

  17. Homology and Phylogenetic Inference in Biological and Material Cultural Evolution

    • Ilya Tëmkin
    Pages 287-313

  18. On the Origin of Technologies: The Invention and Evolution of the Bow-and-Arrow

    • Giuseppe Carignani
    Pages 315-339

  19. Trees, Languages and Genes: A Historical Path

    • Federica Da Milano, Nicoletta Puddu
    Pages 341-355

  20. Signaling in Style: On Cooperation, Identity and the Origins of Visual Art

    • Larissa Mendoza Straffon
    Pages 357-373
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About this book

This volume constitutes a first step towards an ever-deferred interdisciplinary dialogue on cultural traits. It offers a way to enter a representative sample of the intellectual diversity that surrounds this topic, and a means to stimulate innovative avenues of research. It stimulates critical thinking and awareness in the disciplines that need to conceptualize and study culture, cultural traits, and cultural diversity.   Culture is often defined and studied with an emphasis on cultural features. For UNESCO, “culture should be regarded as the set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of society or a social group”. But the very possibility of assuming the existence of cultural traits is not granted, and any serious evaluation of the notion of “cultural trait” requires the interrogation of several disciplines from cultural anthropology to linguistics, from psychology to sociology to musicology, and all areas of knowledge on culture. This book presents a strong multidisciplinary perspective that can help clarify the problems about cultural traits.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Paris School of Economics, Paris, France

    Fabrizio Panebianco

  • CISEPS-CenterforInterdisciplinaryStudies, University of Milano - Bicocca, Milano, Italy

    Emanuele Serrelli

About the editors

Emanuele Serrelli is a philosopher of science interested in interdisciplinarity within and across the natural and social sciences. He works with several Italian universities. He was visiting scholar at the University of Utah, and visiting fellow at the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science, at the Lisbon Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab, and at NESCent National Center for Evolutionary Synthesis, Durham, NC. As a member of the scientific board of CISEPS Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Economics, Psychology and Social Sciences, University of Milano Bicocca, he leads the “Cultural Evolution” research program. As a philosopher of biology, he is trained in evolutionary theory, where he also studies interdisciplinarity and modeling. Fabrizio Panebianco is an economist working on the economics of cultural transmission and on the role played, in this process, by the network of social interactions. He fosters a highly interdisciplinary research agenda merging different evolutionary approaches. He worked in several italian and european universities and now works in Bocconi University. He is member of the scientific board of CISEPS Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Economics, Psychology and Social Sciences, University of Milano Bicocca, and worked in the “Cultural Evolution” research program.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Understanding Cultural Traits

  • Book Subtitle: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Cultural Diversity

  • Editors: Fabrizio Panebianco, Emanuele Serrelli

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24349-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-24347-4Published: 04 March 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79608-6Published: 07 April 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-24349-8Published: 26 February 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 410

  • Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Cultural Studies, Methodology of the Social Sciences

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