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Demps, Kathryn Elise.

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Dynamics of Social Learning: Socialization into a honey-collecting tribe and the ecology of cultural knowledge transmission.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Dynamics of Social Learning: Socialization into a honey-collecting tribe and the ecology of cultural knowledge transmission./
Author:	Demps, Kathryn Elise.
Description:	104 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-02(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-02A(E).
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3540494
ISBN:	9781267656667

Dynamics of Social Learning: Socialization into a honey-collecting tribe and the ecology of cultural knowledge transmission.
Demps, Kathryn Elise.

Dynamics of Social Learning: Socialization into a honey-collecting tribe and the ecology of cultural knowledge transmission. - 104 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-02(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2012.

This dissertation seeks to analyze the processes that guide social learning as it occurs in modern populations. The first paper examines social learning through an ethnography of a tribal population who collect wild honey in Karnataka, South India. I highlight factors at the population- and individual-levels in this social system that are contributing to the loss of local knowledge over time. The second paper examines age-structured social learning with quantitative data from this population to understand cultural transmission as part of the human life cycle. I evaluate data from 196 individuals (aged 6 - 65 years) who participated in skills tests and interviews about local ecological knowledge related to collecting wild honey. I use this data to inform patterns of social learning across age classes and types of knowledge. The final paper uses an agent-based simulation to examine the effectiveness of the different social learning strategies observed for field data above. Rates of environmental change, costs and accuracy of learning, selection pressure, population size, and the learning biases other individuals use in the local environment affect whether individual learning, unbiased social learning, a content bias, a kin bias, or a success bias will become the dominant learning strategy. Like the first two papers, heterogeneity more than anything else characterizes these learning systems. Together, these papers contribute to the field of human evolutionary ecology by locating cultural transmission patterns in real-world settings to inform our theory about salient human contexts that are not easily included in mathematical models such as cultural settings, individual heterogeneity in age and learning ability, and the complex interactions between learning strategies and local ecologies.

ISBN: 9781267656667Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Dynamics of Social Learning: Socialization into a honey-collecting tribe and the ecology of cultural knowledge transmission.
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