...This chapter addresses the issue of judgment in the face of cross-cultural complexity by examining two controversial cases—female genital mutilation and suicide bombings. It constructs a model of good judgment that combines a commitment to core substantive norms with a capacity to make layered...

... and chores peer groups Nyakyusa people of Tanzania Tanzania debutante celebrations German adolescents Jugendweihe Latino families Mexican American families quinceanera initiation social adolescence life-stages circumcision ritual cultural complexity In the weeks leading up to his circumcision...

... archaeomaterials utilitarian wares figurines socio-cultural complexity geochemical complexity mineralogical complexity Ceramic is one of the most complex and ubiquitous archaeomaterials, occurring around the world at prehistoric through industrial sites and used to fashion everything from residences...

... assignment original data PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata computing ethics archivists indeterminate data International World Wide Web Standards Community W3C librarians materiality cultural complexity big data complex data datafication digital mediation knowledge creation...

... neophilia meme’s eye-view cultural drift functional and neutral variation transmission of complex technologies demography and cultural complexity archaeological record Over the last 30 years, the idea that the processes producing cultural stability and change are analogous in important respects...

... Pyysiäinen Ilkka Almond Gabriel Al Sayyad Nezar Carvalho Jean Paul Turner John Dawkins Richard Fischer Claude Hout Michael Segal Uma Wald Kenneth Hamilton William cognition-lite cultural change secularism fundamentalism Darwinian theory cultural complexity economic development modernization...

...This article examines the issue of cultural complexity from an archaeological perspective. It explains that cultural complexity is one of Anglo-American anthropological archaeology's core concepts and it provides the framework for much empirical work in archaeology, and states that archaeologists...