Abstract
Human beings grow into cultural knowledge,within a social and environmental context, rather than receiving it ready made. This seems also to be true of cetaceans. Rendell and Whitehead invoke a notion of culture long since rejected by anthropologists, and fundamentally misunderstand the nature of ethnography. A properly ethnographic study of cetaceans would directly subvert their positivist methodology and reductionist assumptions.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 337 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Behavioral and Brain Sciences |
Volume | 24 |
Publication status | Published - 2001 |