Abstract In 2006, a narrative of the Desana people included system graphic symbols reported as historical Indigenous invention used during intertribal warfare to count number enemies and pass warning information. This paper outlines evaluates system. The are described, their timeline mythical events is compared accounts region. Contemporary spoken numbers then characterized quinary with restric...

Memes are a prominent feature of global life in the 21st century. The author asserts that memes significant to current and future qualitative research. In particular, text establishes as: (a) part everyday communication, expression, explanation, thus useful research; (b) valuable cultural units symbols; (c) forms rapport building cultivating relational (d) approaches bolster sustain remote data...

Food offering culture in Chinese ritual activities is a form of local wisdom the religious system and as medium communication with Gods ancestors. offerings Semarang coastal community rituals are knowledgeable to increase people's awareness consciousness, tourism, culinary culture, especially language, environmental cultural identity. The research purpose describe various food names at ceremoni...

We investigate parsing accuracy on the Korean Treebank 2.0 with a number of different grammars. Comparisons among these grammars and to their English counterparts suggest different aspects of Korean that contribute to parsing difficulty. Our results indicate that the coarseness of the Treebank’s nonterminal set is a even greater problem than in the English Treebank. We also find that Korean’s r...

Darwin-inspired population thinking suggests approaching culture as a population of items of different types, whose relative frequencies may change over time. Three nested subtypes of populational models can be distinguished: evolutionary, selectional and replicative. Substantial progress has been made in the study of cultural evolution by modelling it within the selectional frame. This progres...

Models of cultural evolution study how the distribution of cultural traits changes over time. The dynamics of cultural evolution strongly depends on the way these traits are transmitted between individuals by social learning. Two prominent forms of social learning are payoff-based learning (imitating others that have higher payoffs) and conformist learning (imitating locally common behaviours)....