{"title":"Mathieu Charbonneau","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"evolution-of-techniques-book-mathieu-charbonneau-9780262547802","title":"The Evolution of Techniques","description":"\u003cb\u003eA novel, interdisciplinary exploration of the relative contributions of rigidity and flexibility in the adoption, maintenance, and evolution of technical traditions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Techniques can either be used in rigid, stereotypical ways or in flexibly adaptive ways, or in some combination of the two. \u003ci\u003eThe Evolution of Techniques\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Mathieu Charbonneau, addresses the impacts of both flexibility and rigidity on how techniques are used, transformed, and reconstructed, at varying social and temporal scales. The multidisciplinary contributors demonstrate the important role of the varied learning contexts and social configurations involved in the transmission, use, and evolution of techniques. They explore the diversity of cognitive, behavioral, sociocultural, and ecological mechanisms that promote and constrain technical flexibility and rigidity, proposing a deeper picture of the enablers of, and obstacles to, technical transmission and change.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In line with the extended evolutionary synthesis, the book proposes a more inclusive and materially grounded conception of technical evolution in terms of promiscuous, dynamic, and multidirectional causal processes. Offering new evidence and novel theoretical perspectives, the contributors deploy a diversity of methods, including ethnographies, field and laboratory experiments, cladistics and phylogenetic tree building, historiography, and philosophical analysis. Examples of the wide range of topics covered include field experiments with potters from five cultures, stability and change in Paleolithic toolmaking, why children lack flexibility when making tools, and cultural techniques in nonhuman animals.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The volume's three thematic sections are-\u003cbr\u003e Timescales of technical rigidity and flexibility\u003cbr\u003e Rigid copying to flexible reconstruction\u003cbr\u003e Exogenous factors of technical rigidity and flexibility\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The volume closes with a discussion by philosopher Kim Sterelny.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Rita Astuti, Adam Howell Boyette, Blandine Bril, Josep Call, Mathieu Charbonneau, Arianna Curioni, Nicola Cutting, Bert De Munck, Gy rgy Gergely, Anne-Lise Goujon, Ildik Kiraly, Catherine Lara, Sebastien Manem, Luke McEllin, Helena Miton, Giulio Ongaro, Sarah Pope-Caldwell, Valentine Roux, Manon Schweinfurth, Dan Sperber, Kim Sterelny, Dietrich Stout, James W. A. Strachan, Sadie Tenpas","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49748315242769,"sku":"NGR9780262547802","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50468890575121,"sku":"GOR013790773","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51327121752337,"sku":"CIN0262547805G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53372773630225,"sku":"GOR014884627","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0262547805.jpg?v=1751425110"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-mathieu-charbonneau.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}