by Michelle Scalise Sugiyama | Jul 18, 2021 | Blog
Sound Knowledge Michelle Scalise Sugiyama | July 18, 2021 “Reading the environment, or more accurately somatic listening to it, is a hunter-gatherer . . . way of gathering knowledge and understanding.” –Low (2011:298) People who make their living by hunting and...
by Michelle Scalise Sugiyama | Apr 15, 2021 | Blog
Games as Adaptively Structured Learning Environments Michelle Scalise Sugiyama | April 14, 2021 Cumulative culture depends not only on evolved cognitive capacities (e.g., shared attention, shared intentionality, social referencing, and language), but on access to...
by Michelle Scalise Sugiyama | Jan 31, 2021 | Insular Pacific
“The Wareenggary and Karambal” Culture: Bundjalung & Koombanggary | Narrator: Unidentified | Source: Matthews (1899:26) Entry by Michelle Scalise Sugiyama Story On the Clarence River there once lived seven young women who were sisters, named...
by Michelle Scalise Sugiyama | Jan 14, 2021 | Blog
“About the Old Woman of Swamps” Culture: Ainu | Narrator: Unidentified | Source: Batchelor (1924:59) Entry by Michelle Scalise Sugiyama Story This is the story of the old woman of swamps. The Creator of the world formed sixty mattocks of black stone...
by Michelle Scalise Sugiyama | Dec 17, 2020 | Blog
The Logistics of Cultural Transmission Michelle Scalise Sugiyama | February 2, 2021 “to draw inferences regarding symbolic understandings of animals depicted in carvings and other ‘art,’ it is critical to first document the complex real-world relationships among...
Recent Comments