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SUMMARY:Bernard Comrie - Vertical and horizontal transmission of language structure
DESCRIPTION:Bernard Comrie: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Department of Linguistics & UC Santa Barbara Department of LinguisticsAn understanding of the transmission of language across time requires reference to both vertical transmission – for instance\, the English word “father” is a direct inheritance from the ancestral language Proto-Indo-European – and horizontal transmission – “paternal” was taken from Latin in the medieval period. This applies not only to vocabulary but also to language structure (grammar). The recently completed project The World Atlas of Language Structures (www.wals.info) for the first time provides the possibility of investigating such relations in detail. The talk will refer specifically to structural features that seem more amenable to either vertical or horizontal transmission\, and include discussion of linguistic areas like Southeast Asia that result from widespread horizontal transmission and of the kinds of historical signals that can be detected in comparing structural information from languages of sub-Saharan Africa.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/bernard-comrie-vertical-and-horizontal-transmission-of-language-structure/
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SUMMARY:Brenda Bowser - Learning and Transmission of Pottery Style: Women's Life Histories and Communities of Practice in the Ecuadorian Amazon
DESCRIPTION:Brenda Bowser: Cal State Fullerton Department of AnthropologyThis paper examines the transmission of stylistic behavior in the community of Conambo. The people of Conambo are self-sufficient horticultural foragers who are strongly divided into two competing coalitions with flexible membership and defections across the coalitional boundary. The women of Conambo maintain a domestic polychrome ceramic tradition absent from external market influences. Previous studies show that pottery design in Conambo is understood and used strategically as a marker of group membership. In this paper we report age and status differences in perception and transmission of stylistic behavior\, indicating that women’s pottery style and strategies of signification track life-history changes in their political relationships with in-group and out-group allies. We argue that in Conambo the transmission of ceramic design is influenced by the political strategies of women throughout their lives.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/brenda-bowser-learning-and-transmission-of-pottery-style-womens-life-histories-and-communities-of-practice-in-the-ecuadorian-amazon/
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SUMMARY:Daniel J. Kruger - Sexual selection\, male competition\, and sex differences in human mortality rates
DESCRIPTION:Daniel J. Kruger: University of Michigan School of Public HealthSex differences in human mortality rates stem from genetic\, physiological\, behavioral\, and social causes that are best understood when integrated in an evolutionary life history framework. Males in many species are selected for riskier physiological and behavioral strategies that enhance reproductive success at the expense of health and longevity. Sex differences shaped by sexual selection interact with the environment to yield a pattern with some consistency\, but also with expected variations due to socioeconomic and other factors. This presentation investigates the notion that sex differences in human mortality rates are related to levels of male competition for resources\, social status\, and mates\, and that the actual or potential degree of skew in resource control will influence the degree of male competition and excess male mortality.http://www.bec.ucla.edu/papers/Kruger_3.19.07.pdf
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/daniel-j-kruger-sexual-selection-male-competition-and-sex-differences-in-human-mortality-rates/
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