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Cultural universal. General[edit] The emergence of these universals dates to the Upper Paleolithic, with the first evidence of full behavioral modernity.

Cultural universal

List of cultural universals[edit] Among the cultural universals listed by Brown (1991) are: Donald Brown (anthropologist) Rik Pinxten. Rik Pinxten (Antwerp, 12 March 1947) is a professor and researcher in cultural anthropology at Ghent University.[1] Between 2003 and 2010 he was chairman of the Liberal Humanist Association of Flanders, the Flemish section of The Humanist Association (Belgium).

Rik Pinxten

He is chairman of the Center for Intercultural Communication and Interaction (CICI) of the University of Ghent. Together with Gerard Mortier, he was an advocate for the creation of the progressive Music Forum "The Krook" in Ghent. In 2004, he received the Ark Prize of the Free Word for his book The Artistic Society. Pinxten conducted his fieldwork on the Navajo people. He is an advocate for interculturalism over multiculturalism, arguing for dialogue and interaction between different communities based on a strong identity.

Bibliography[edit] 2009 DIY democracy, Ghislain Verstraete, eds, EPO, ISBN 978-90-6445-552-02009 People. References[edit] External links[edit] Steven Pinker. Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, linguist, and popular science author.

Steven Pinker

He is a Harvard College Professor and the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University,[3] and is known for his advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. Pinker's academic specializations are visual cognition and psycholinguistics. His experimental subjects include mental imagery, shape recognition, visual attention, children's language development, regular and irregular phenomena in language, the neural bases of words and grammar, and the psychology of innuendo and euphemism.

He published two technical books which proposed a general theory of language acquisition and applied it to children's learning of verbs. In his popular books, he has argued that language is an "instinct" or biological adaptation shaped by natural selection. Charles E. Osgood. Charles Egerton Osgood (November 20, 1916 – September 15, 1991) was a distinguished American psychologist who developed a technique for measuring the connotative meaning of concepts, known as the semantic differential.

Charles E. Osgood

Career[edit] Osgood was born in Somerville, Massachusetts. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Yale University in 1945.[1] He was a professor of psychology of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana from 1949 to 1984, and a research professor of the Institute of Communications Research (ICR), in the UI College of Communications. He was the Director of the ICR from 1957 to 1984. Among his many awards were the APA's Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award (1960), and the APA's Kurt Lewin Award (1971). George Murdock. George Peter ("Pete") Murdock (May 11, 1897 – March 29, 1985), also known as G.

George Murdock

P. Murdock, was an American anthropologist. He is remembered for his empirical approach to ethnological studies and his landmark works on Old World populations. Early life[edit] Born in Meriden, Connecticut to a family that had farmed there for five generations, Murdock spent many childhood hours working on the family farm and acquired a wide knowledge of traditional, non-mechanized, farming methods. Even in his earliest writings, Murdock's distinctive approach is apparent. Believing that a cross-cultural approach would help the U.S. war effort during World War II, Murdock and a few colleagues enlisted in the Navy and wrote handbooks on the cultures of Micronesia, working out of an office at Columbia University.

Yale[edit] Murdock joined the faculty of Yale University in 1928. Claude Lévi-Strauss. Eugene G. d'Aquili. Eugene G. d'Aquili (born 1940) was a research psychiatrist who specialized in studying members of religious communities (e.g., brain image scans).

Eugene G. d'Aquili

He died in 1998. Works[edit] Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief (2001) with Andrew Newberg (Author) and Vince Rause, Ballantine BooksThe mystical mind: probing the biology of religious experience (1999) with Andrew B. Newberg, Fortress PressBrain, symbol & experience: toward a neurophenomenology of human consciousness (1990) with Charles D. Laughlin and John McManus, New Science LibraryThe spectrum of ritual: a biogenetic structural analysis (1979) with Charles D. External links[edit] Obituary at: Charles Laughlin. Charles D.

Charles Laughlin

Laughlin, Jr. (born 1938) is known primarily for having co-founded a school of neuroanthropological theory called Biogenetic Structuralism. Joseph Greenberg. Life[edit] Early life and education[edit] (Main source: Croft 2003) Joseph Greenberg was born on May 28, 1915 to Jewish parents in Brooklyn, New York.

Joseph Greenberg

His first love was music. At the age of 14, he gave a piano concert at Steinway Hall. After finishing high school, he decided to pursue a scholarly career rather than a musical one. Theodoros Giannakis.