Theoretical and methodological developments guided by a cognitive theory of culture have
advanced our understanding of cultural processes over the past 40 years. The theoretical …

Winner of the 2019 Society for Anthropological Sciences Book Prize This book engages with
the issue of how culture is incorporated into individuals' lives, a question that has long …

Cultural consonance is the degree to which individuals approximate, in their own beliefs and
behaviors, the prototypes for belief and behavior encoded in cultural models. Low cultural …

Religions “in the wild” are the varied set of religious activities that occurred before the
emergence of organized religions with doctrines, or that persist at the margins of those …

Systematic Methods for Analyzing Culture is a practical manual that provides step-by-step
instruction for collecting and analyzing cultural data. This compact guide explains complex …

The study of human biology includes exploration of all the genetic and environmental
influences on human variation and life history, including impacts of sociocultural and …

The relationship between the individuals and the culture is often taken for granted but not
understood very clearly. In order to understand the relationship between the culture and …

Cognitive culture theory and the associated methods of cultural domain analysis and cultural
consensus analysis have revolutionized the study of cultural sharing and variation …

Since the late 1990s, scholars have advocated for the adoption of political-economic
approaches in biological anthropology. Despite this, the explicit application of these …

Research on subjective social status has long recognized that individuals occupy multiple
social hierarchies, with socioeconomic status (SES) being but one. The issue, as such, has …