Culture

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Template

Examples are units of knowledge that illustrate an interesting fact or observation about an object of study.

  • Introduce the argument underlying the example
    • What relationships are addressed?
  • How does this example reflect the exhibition goals
  • What is the current state of thinking
  • How does a more-than-human framing challenge the status-quo
  • Include representative examples as images, diagrams, videos, quotes, etc.
  • How would this re-framing benefit life, scholarship, practice, etc.?
  • What exhibition components relate to this example?
    • Examples
    • Stories
    • Relationships

Culture

Non-human

  • Cultural transmission in animals
    • all group-typical behavior patterns, shared by members of animal communities, that are to some degree reliant on socially learned and transmitted information.1

  • Unified theories of culture
    • Including nonhumans2

Conservation


Footnotes

  1. Laland, Kevin N., and Vincent M. Janik. “The Animal Cultures Debate.” Trends in Ecology & Evolution 21, no. 10 (2006): 542–47. https://doi.org/10/fgznx6.˄

  2. Whiten, Andrew. “A Unified Account of Culture Should Accommodate Animal Cultures.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 43 (2020). https://doi.org/10/gjnh2k.˄