Recurrence of Bear Restoration Symbolism: Minusinsk Basin Evenki and Basin-Plateau Ute
Abstract By combining ethnographic and evolutionary psychological approaches, this paper compares adaptive strategies of two groups of hunter-gatherers colonizing marginal environments, one in Southern Siberia (Minusinsk Basin) and the other in North America (Great Basin and Colorado Plateau). The b...
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crbrillap:10.1163/156770908x289215 2024-04-28T08:18:12+00:00 Recurrence of Bear Restoration Symbolism: Minusinsk Basin Evenki and Basin-Plateau Ute McNeil, Lynda 2008 http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156770908x289215 https://brill.com/view/journals/jocc/8/1-2/article-p71_4.xml https://brill.com/downloadpdf/journals/jocc/8/1-2/article-p71_4.xml unknown Brill Journal of Cognition and Culture volume 8, issue 1-2, page 71-98 ISSN 1567-7095 1568-5373 Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Cultural Studies Social Psychology journal-article 2008 crbrillap https://doi.org/10.1163/156770908x289215 2024-04-02T06:51:48Z Abstract By combining ethnographic and evolutionary psychological approaches, this paper compares adaptive strategies of two groups of hunter-gatherers colonizing marginal environments, one in Southern Siberia (Minusinsk Basin) and the other in North America (Great Basin and Colorado Plateau). The biological and cultural survival of Southern Siberian (Evenki) and Basin-Plateau (Numic) hunter-gatherers depended upon developing a complex of social and symbolic strategies, including ritual, oral narratives and rock art. These symbolic representations, which emerged in response to reproductive and somatic demands, appear to have been preserved and transmitted inter-generationally, and to have recurred cross-culturally above chance. Article in Journal/Newspaper Evenki Siberia Brill Journal of Cognition and Culture 8 1-2 71 98 |
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Abstract By combining ethnographic and evolutionary psychological approaches, this paper compares adaptive strategies of two groups of hunter-gatherers colonizing marginal environments, one in Southern Siberia (Minusinsk Basin) and the other in North America (Great Basin and Colorado Plateau). The biological and cultural survival of Southern Siberian (Evenki) and Basin-Plateau (Numic) hunter-gatherers depended upon developing a complex of social and symbolic strategies, including ritual, oral narratives and rock art. These symbolic representations, which emerged in response to reproductive and somatic demands, appear to have been preserved and transmitted inter-generationally, and to have recurred cross-culturally above chance. |
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Recurrence of Bear Restoration Symbolism: Minusinsk Basin Evenki and Basin-Plateau Ute |
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Recurrence of Bear Restoration Symbolism: Minusinsk Basin Evenki and Basin-Plateau Ute |
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Recurrence of Bear Restoration Symbolism: Minusinsk Basin Evenki and Basin-Plateau Ute |
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Recurrence of Bear Restoration Symbolism: Minusinsk Basin Evenki and Basin-Plateau Ute |
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Recurrence of Bear Restoration Symbolism: Minusinsk Basin Evenki and Basin-Plateau Ute |
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recurrence of bear restoration symbolism: minusinsk basin evenki and basin-plateau ute |
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