References from Week 1 lecture

Introduction to a Cognitive Approach to Culture

What is culture?

• Kroeber, A. L., & Kluckhohn, C. (1952). Culture: A critical review of concepts and definitions. New York: Vintage.
• Tylor, E. B. (1871). Primitive culture: Researches into the development of mythology, philosophy, religion, art, and custom. London: Murray.
• McGrew, W. C. (1998). “Culture in nonhuman primates?” Annual Review of Anthropology, 27,  301–328.
• Whiten, A., Goodall, J., McGrew, W. C., Nishida, T., Reynolds, V., Sugiyama, Y., et al. (1999). Cultures in chimpanzees. Nature, 399, 682-685.

The relationship between mind and culture

• Ryle, G. (1949). The concept of mind. London: Hutchinson.

Differences between humans and other animals at the cognitive level

• Tomasello, M. (1999). The cultural origins of human cognition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Social constructionism and the Blank Slate

• Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (1992). The psychological foundations of culture. In J. H. Barkow, L. Cosmides & J. Tooby (Eds.), The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture (pp. 19-136). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Mallon, R., & Stich, S. P. (2000). The odd couple: The compatibility of social construction and evolutionary psychology. Philosophy of Science, 67, 133-154.
• Pinker, S. (2003). The blank slate. London: Penguin.

Sociobiology and Behavioural Genetics

• Wilson, E. O. (1975/2000). Sociobiology: The new synthesis (2nd ed.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• Dawkins, R. (1976/2006). The selfish gene (3rd ed.). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
• Trivers, R. L. (2002). Natural selection and social theory: Selected papers of Robert Trivers. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
• Hamilton, W. D. (1964). The genetical evolution of social behaviour. I. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 7, 1-16.
• Blackmore, S. J. (1999). The meme machine. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
• Gould, S. J. (1978). Sociobiology: The art of storytelling. New Scientist, 80, 530-533.
• Lewontin, R. C., Rose, S. P. R., & Kamin, L. J. (1984). Not in our genes. New York: Pantheon.

Bridging the Gap: The Cognitive Revolution

• Cosmides, L., Tooby, J., & Barkow, J. H. (1992). Introduction: Evolutionary psychology and conceptual integration. In J. H. Barkow, L. Cosmides & J. Tooby (Eds.), The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture (pp. 3-15). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Wilson, E. O. (1998). Consilience: The unity of knowledge. New York: Knopf.
• Neisser, U. (1967). Cognitive psychology. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
• Chomsky, N. A. (1957/2002). Syntactic structures (2nd ed.). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Developmental Psychology and a Cognitive Approach to Concepts

• Brown, D. E. (1991). Human universals. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill.
• Spelke, E. S., Phillips, A., & Woodward, A. L. (1995). Infants’ knowledge of object motion and human action. In D. Sperber, D. Premack & A. J. Premack (Eds.),Causal cognition: A multidisciplinary debate (pp. 44-78). New York: Clarendon Press.
• Kuhlmeier, V., Wynn, K., & Bloom, P. (2003). Attribution of dispositional states by 12-month-olds. Psychological Science, 14, 402-408.
• Hamlin, J. K., Wynn, K., & Bloom, P. (2007). Social evaluation by preverbal infants. Nature, 450, 557-559.
• Connellan, J., Baron-Cohen, S., Wheelwright, S., Batki, A., & Ahluwalia, J. (2000). Sex differences in human neonatal social perception. Infant Behavior and Development, 23, 113-118.
• Medin, D. L., & Shoben, E. J. (1988). Context and structure in conceptual combination. Cognitive Psychology, 20, 158-190.

Evolutionary Psychology and a Cognitive Approach to Culture

• Sperber, D., & Hirschfeld, L. A. (2004). The cognitive foundations of cultural stability and diversity. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8, 40-46.
• Barkow, J. H. (1989). Darwin, sex, and status: Biological approaches to mind and culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
• Bjorklund, D. F., & Pellegrini, A. D. (2002). The origins of human nature: Evolutionary developmental psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Conclusion: Two Approaches to the Study of Cognitive Architecture

• Boyd, R., & Richerson, P. J. (2005). The origin and evolution of cultures. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Richerson, P. J., & Boyd, R. (2005). Not by genes alone: How culture transformed human evolution. Chicago University Press: Chicago.
• Tomasello, M. (2008). Origins of human communication. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Laland, K. N., & Brown, G. R. (2002). Sense and nonsense: Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
• Mesoudi, A., Whiten, A., & Laland, K. N. (2006). Towards a unified science of cultural evolution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29, 329-383.