BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://bec.ucla.edu
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Los_Angeles
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20190310T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20191103T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20200308T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20201101T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20210314T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20211107T090000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201116T133000
DTSTAMP:20260506T061113
CREATED:20201003T185409Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201118T164604Z
UID:4637-1605528000-1605533400@bec.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pascal Boyer - Why divination? A salient cultural attractor\, an explanatory model\, and some lessons for how to understand the generation of culture
DESCRIPTION:Why divination? A salient cultural attractor\, an explanatory model\, and some lessons for how to understand the generation of culture\nPascal Boyer\nProfessor of Sociocultural Anthropology and Psychology​ and Henry Luce Professor of Collective and Individual Memory\, Washington University in St. Louis\nDivination is a good example of a cultural attractor – almost all human societies have some documented form of divination\, a procedure that supposedly guarantees the truth of the statements it produces. I propose a model of the strategic interactions around divination that may explain why the practice is so widespread\, with some unexpected commonalities. This is an opportunity to think about cultural evolution\, which so far has produced good models of cultural consumption\, leaving aside why people produce the kind of material that become culturally widespread. \n 
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/pascal-boyer-why-divination-a-salient-cultural-attractor-an-explanatory-model-and-some-lessons-for-how-to-understand-the-generation-of-culture/
CATEGORIES:2020,Past Presentation,Presentation
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR