Phylogenetically Related Cultural Traditions
- 1 February 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Cross-Cultural Research
- Vol. 31 (1) , 16-26
- https://doi.org/10.1177/106939719703100102
Abstract
Anthropologists have long recognized that cultural traditions in different societies can be related phylogenetically in that they derive historically from a common ancestral tradition in the same way that languages can be related phylogenetically. Problems of method for convincingly establishing such relations for cultural traditions have remained unresolved. Remote Oceania, where we have reason to assume that nearly all existing cultural traditions are phyloge netically related, offers possibilities for comparative study to illus trate the methodological issues to be resolved. The methodological strategy is described and illustrative examples are offered.Keywords
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