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.
Tom Uytterhoeven’s insight:
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…