Beyond the Meme: Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution Volume 22

Book Overview

Interdisciplinary perspectives on cultural evolution that reject meme theory in favor of a complex understanding of dynamic change over time

How do cultures change? In recent decades, the concept of the meme, posited as a basic unit of culture analogous to the gene, has been central to debates about cultural transformation. Despite the appeal of meme theory, its simplification of complex interactions and other inadequacies as an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517906903
• ISBN13: 9781517906900
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.1"