Navigating culture: navigational instruments as cultural artefacts,c. 1550–1650

Navigating Web Sites: Considering Navigational and Semantic Constraints

Two approaches for website design: The open and strongly hyperlinked structure associated with “information architecture” and a more closed approach based upon narrative techniques are compared through analysis and user observation. As a result, a hybrid approach to website design, known as the reformulated accordion structure, is suggested.

The Cultural Foundations of a Republican Polity: Culture as Communication

Beyond nature versus culture: cultural variation as an evolved characteristic*

There is a perceived dichotomy between evolutionary explanations for behaviour and social or cultural ones. In this essay, I attempt to dissolve this dichotomy by pointing out that organisms are susceptible to social or cultural influence because they have evolved mechanisms that make them so. I review two classes of evolutionary explanation for cultural variation, ‘evoked’ and ‘transmitted’ cu...

Cultural Priming as a Tool to Understand Multiculturalism and Culture

What is multiculturalism, and how is it typically studied? The current paper provides answers to these questions by introducing approaches to the study of multiculturalism and their implications. We first present the view of multiculturalism as a static and dispositional phenomenon (i.e., demographic, as well as most uniand bidimensional conceptualizations of acculturation) and then focus on mo...

Culture as an individual process: Deficits of national cultural theories in management of cultural diversity