See on Scoop.it – Cultural evolution
These stunning images show the display of Aboriginal culture at the Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival. (RT @ausgeo: These stunning images show the display of Aboriginal culture at the Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival.
Reproducing culture by performance, Daniel Dennett’s classic example of how culture evolves. But he uses memes, thus eradicating meaning and suggests rites like these belong in a cultural museum or zoo (Darwin’s Dangerous Idea). Wonder whether his philosophical analysis fits these people’s experience…