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[ecrea] "Bioculture: Evolutionary Cultural Studies": New issue of Politics and Culture

Fri Apr 30 17:44:13 GMT 2010


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>The journal Politics and Culture announces 
>"Bioculture: Evolutionary Cultural Studies," a 
>special issue guest edited by Joseph Carroll.
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>The issue may be found here:
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>http://www.politicsandculture.org/2010/04/28/contents-2/
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>Table of Contents:
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>ESSAYS AND REVIEWS
>1. The Evolutionary Turn in Psychology and the Humanities
>  "Metaphors, Models, and Modularity" by Gordon H. Orians
>  "A Darwinian Revolution in the Humanities" by Joseph Carroll
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>2. Politics and Ethics
>  "Free As We Need To Be" by Harold Fromm
>"Notes Toward a Darwinian Left" by Jiro Tanaka
>"Consilience, Ecocriticism, and Ecological Destruction" by Jerry Hoeg
>"Evolution and a Dual Processing Theory of 
>Culture:  Applications to Moral Idealism and 
>Political Philosophy" by Kevin MacDonald
>"From Morality to Law: The role of Kinship, 
>Tradition, and Politics" by Kathryn Coe & Craig T. Palmer
>"Are Liberals Mutants? Human History as Evolutionary History" by Michael Ryan
>  "Anti-Feminism in Early Western Thought: St. 
> Jerome, Evolution, and Culture" by Louis Martin
>"Money, Age, and Marriage in Venice: A Brief 
>Biocultural History" by Linda Carroll
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>3. Religion
>"Review of three books on Evolution and Religion" by Gordon Burghardt
>  "Review of  two books on Snakes" by Gordon Burghardt
>"Biology, Culture, and Religiously Motivated 
>Suicide Terrorism: An Evolutionary Perspective" by Candace S. Alcorta
>  "How Problem Solving and Neurotransmission in 
> the Upper Paleolithic Led to the Emergence and 
> Maintenance of  Memetic Equilibrium in 
> Contemporary World Religions" by Christopher W. diCarlo
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>4. Literature
>Autobiography
>"Benjamin Franklin´s Autobiography: The Story of 
>a Successful Social Animal" by Judith Saunders
>"Ancestral Footprints: An Adaptationist Approach 
>to Vernon Jordan´s Life Story" by Charles Duncan
>Poetry
>  "Rhymes without Reason? Or: The Improbable 
> Evolution of  Poetry" by Dirk Vanderbeke
>  "Review of Masculinity in Four Victorian 
> Epics: A Darwinist Reading, by Clinton Machann" by Todd. O. Williams
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>Prose Fiction
>Michael Austin
>"Review of Why We Care about Literary 
>Characters, by Blakey Vermeule" by Michael Austin
>"Of Morality, Proverbial Wisdom, and Bernard 
>Malamud´s God´s Grace" by Peter Swirski
>"Asymmetry in Male and Female Storyteller 
>Priorities: An Analysis by Gender of a Sample of 
>Published Folk Narratives Collected from 
>Storytellers Worldwide" by Kathleen Ragan
>
>Literary Theory
>Brian Boyd
>"Literature, Evolution, and Cognition 
>~  Questions, Answers, Questions ~ The Example of Hamlet" by Brian Boyd
>"Review of Literature, Science, and a New 
>Humanities, by Jonathan Gottschall" by John Knapp
>"Imitation and Literary Evolution" by Tom Dolack
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>5. Music
>"Music, Fire, and Evolution" by Stephen Davies
>"Musical Truth in Musorgsky´s Boris Godunov" by Brett Cooke
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>PART TWO: SYMPOSIUM ON THE QUESTION
>"HOW IS CULTURE BIOLOGICAL?"
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>Six Essays with Responses and Rejoinders
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>1. Steve Moxon
>"Culture IS Biology: Why We Cannot "Transcend"  Our Genes, or Ourselves"
>Responses by Joseph Carroll and Ian Roberts
>Rejoinder by  Steve Moxon
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>2. Anja Müller-Wood & John Carter Wood
>"How Is Culture Biological? Violence: Real and Imagined"
>Responses by Joseph Carroll, John Price, Diana Kornbrot, and Robert Stonjek
>Rejoinder by Anja Müller-Wood & John Carter Wood
>***
>3. John Scott Price
>"The Culture of Religious Belief Systems and Changes of  Belief System"
>Responses by Joseph Carroll, Diana Kornbrot, 
>Anja Müller-Wood & John Carter Wood, and Robert Stonjek
>Rejoinder by John Scott Price
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>4. Peter J. Richerson
>"Culture Is an Active Part of Biology"
>Responses by Joseph Carroll, Diana Kornbrot, 
>Anja Müller-Wood &  John Carter  Wood, and Robert Stonjek
>Rejoinder by Peter J. Richerson
>
>***
>5. Robert Karl Stonjek
>"A Brief but Plausible History of Culture"
>Responses by Joseph Carroll,  Diana Kornbrot, 
>and Anja Müller-Wood & John Carter Wood
>Rejoinder by Robert Karl Stonjek
>***
>6. Lionel Tiger
>"Culture As Homeostatic Mechanism"
>Responses by Joseph Carroll and Robert Karl Stonjek
>
>
>NOTE: Another issue from Politics and Culture, 
>"On Intellectual Biography", is forthcoming.
>

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