From: "Paul Marsden" <PaulMarsden@email.msn.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: Lit review of memetic and Evoluionary Culture Theory
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 12:11:54 -0000
>Has anybody done a review of this literature in relation to memetics? I
know of
>Agner Fog's essay, but is there anything else somebody can point me to?
Yes, I have in my DPhil thesis - and I'll forward you a copy of the lit
review if you're still interested when the thesis is submitted at the end of
December. In the mean time, try for reasonable lit reviews:
Durham, W.H. (1990) Advances in evolutionary culture theory. Annual Review
of Anthropology, 19: 187-210.
and
Flinn, M.V. (1997) Culture and the evolution of social learning. Evolution
and Human Behavior, 18: 23-67.
Of course there is my last JOM paper which reviews social contagion research
and argues that it is the flip side of the same memetic coin. Alternatively
there is (without an explicit mention of memetics)
Levy, D.A., and Nail, P.R. (1993) Contagion: A theoretical and empirical
review and reconceptualization. Genetic, Social and General Psychology
Monographs ,119: 235-183.
Hope this is useful.
Cheers
Paul Marsden
Graduate Research Centre in the Social Sciences
University of Sussex
e-mail PaulMarsden@msn.com
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