Why Cultures Persist: Toward a Cultural Immunology

By: Sorensen, Jesper

Why do humans form groups? Why would a brain, preoccupied with predicting the world, make the formation of cultures possible? And how does our socio-historical context shape the way we think? In a world faced with numerous global challenges and burdened by conflicts defined along cultural boundaries, now more than ever we need a comprehensive theory of the role of culture in human cooperation. Cultures persist: not only because they enable coordination...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8772196262
• ISBN13: 9788772196268
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Aarhus University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 3.43 lbs.