Acknowledgments
Introduction: Developing a Scientific Paradigm for Understanding Culture / Melissa J. Brown
Part One: What is Culture?
1. Some Kinds of Causal Powers That Make Up Culture / Roy D'Andrade
2. Culture in Evolution: Toward an Integration of Chimpanzee and Human Cultures / Christophe Boesch
3. Dissent with Modification: Cultural Evolution and Social Niche Construction / Marcus W. Feldman
Part Two: Modeling-Based Case Studies
4. Cultural Evolution: Accomplishments and Future Prospects / Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd
5. Conditions for the Spread of Culturally Transmitted Costly Punishment of Sib Mating / Kenichi Aoki, Yasuo Ihara, and Marcus W. Feldman
6. Sexually Transmitted Infections as Biomarkers of Cultural Behavior / James Holland Jones
Part Three: Ethnographic Case Studies
7. When Culture Affects Behavior: A New Look at Kuru / William H. Durham
8. When Culture Does Not Affect Behavior: The Structural Basis of Ethnic Identity / Melissa J. Brown
9. A Cultural Species / Joseph Henrich
10. Culture Matters: Inferences from Comparative Behavioral Experiments and Evolutionary Models / Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
Part Four: Challenges to a Science of Culture
11. Cultural Evolution and Uxorilocal Marriage in China: A Second Opinion / Arthur P. Wolf
12. When Theory Is Data: Coming to Terms with "Culture" as a Way of Life / Gregory Starrett
13. Studying "Culture" Scientifically Is an Oxymoron: The Interesting Question Is Why People Don't Accept This / Robert Borofsky
Epilogue: Future Considerations / Melissa J. Brown
References
Contributors
Index