Artefacts in cultural transmission: Evolutionary perspective

Intergenerational Cultural Transmission as an Evolutionary Game

We generalize the Bisin and Verdier (2000, 2001) model of intergenerational transmission to permit an arbitrary number of cultural traits. A key observation – that this model is equivalent to an evolutionary game under replicator dynamics – allows us to exploit the extensive literature on replicator systems. For some substantively interesting special cases, we demonstrate global stability of eq...

Quality Management: An Evolutionary Cross-Cultural Perspective

The purpose of this chapter is to address the extent to which quality management is “culture-specific.” The chapter presents the results of a survey administered across 21 countries that seeks to examine quality priorities and practices by adopting the Global Leadership and Organizational Behaviour Effectiveness (GLOBE) framework (House et al., 2004). Drawing on previous research (Vecchi & Bren...

3d Colour Imaging for Cultural Heritage Artefacts

This paper will discuss work in progress for the metric 3D recording and colour imaging of museum objects and the opportunities it opens up to broaden scientific knowledge about these artefacts. The following recording technologies will be discussed and compared with regard to imaging complex objects: phase-shift laser scanning, handheld laser scanning, high-resolution 3D colour laser scanning,...

Evolutionary Theories of Cultural Change : An Empirical Perspective

Evolutionary Theories of Cultural Change: An Empirical Perspective Richard R. Nelson Columbia University Version: January18, 2005 Abstract Evolutionary theorizing in the social sciences has a long tradition, going back well before Darwin. Much of contemporary evolutionary theorizing by social scientists about the processes of change at work in various aspects of human culture for example scienc...

Trusting Crowdsourced Information on Cultural Artefacts