The Complexity of Social-Cultural Emergence
The Complexity of Social-Cultural Emergence

Author: Kobus Marais

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2024-05-15

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 9027246947

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Based on previous work that linked biosemiotics, semiotics and translation studies, this book further explores a variety of factors that play a role in social-cultural emergence. The volume, which presents a selection of papers read at a conference in 2022 with the same title as the book, engages the systems of matter-energy, biology, and significance from which and in relation to which society-culture emerges. The volume entails an interdisciplinary complex of perspectives, drawing on quantum physics and informatics as well as new materialism and a number of perspectives from semiotics and ecosemiotics in its investigations. Researchers and postgraduate students from fields such as biology, biosemiotics, semiotics, translation studies, cultural studies, new materialist thought and others, who are interested in inter- and transdisciplinary approaches to issues of society-culture, will find this book compelling reading.

Culture, Mind, and Brain
Culture, Mind, and Brain

Author: Laurence J. Kirmayer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-09-24

Total Pages: 683

ISBN-13: 1108580572

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Recent neuroscience research makes it clear that human biology is cultural biology - we develop and live our lives in socially constructed worlds that vary widely in their structure values, and institutions. This integrative volume brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from the human, social, and biological sciences to explore culture, mind, and brain interactions and their impact on personal and societal issues. Contributors provide a fresh look at emerging concepts, models, and applications of the co-constitution of culture, mind, and brain. Chapters survey the latest theoretical and methodological insights alongside the challenges in this area, and describe how these new ideas are being applied in the sciences, humanities, arts, mental health, and everyday life. Readers will gain new appreciation of the ways in which our unique biology and cultural diversity shape behavior and experience, and our ongoing adaptation to a constantly changing world.

A (Bio)Semiotic Theory of Translation
A (Bio)Semiotic Theory of Translation

Author: Kobus Marais

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-25

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1351392042

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This volume outlines a theory of translation, set within the framework of Peircean semiotics, which challenges the linguistic bias in translation studies by proposing a semiotic theory that accounts for all instances of translation, not only interlinguistic translation. In particular, the volume explores cases of translation which does not include language at all. The book begins by examining different conceptualizations of translation to highlight how linguistic bias in translation studies and semiotics has informed these fields and their development. The volume then outlines a complexity theory of translation based on semiotics which incorporates process philosophy, semiotics, and translation theory. It posits that translation is the complex systemic process underlying semiosis, the result of which produces semiotic forms. The book concludes by looking at the implications of this conceptualization of translation on social-cultural emergence theory through an interdisciplinary lens, integrating perspectives from semiotics, social semiotics, and development studies. Paving the way for scholars to analyze translational aspects of all semiotic phenomena, this volume is essential reading for graduate students and researchers in translation studies, semiotics, multimodal studies, cultural studies, and development studies.

The Emergence of Premodern States
The Emergence of Premodern States

Author: Jeremy A. Sabloff

Publisher:

Published: 2018-06

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9781947864122

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Archaeology is experiencing a data deluge. Many of the foremost experts in quantitative archaeology and anthropology leverage innovative methodologies-including agent-based modeling, network analysis, and theoretical applications of evolutionary biology-to probe long-debated questions on the formation of early states.

Emergent Behavior in Complex Systems Engineering
Emergent Behavior in Complex Systems Engineering

Author: Saurabh Mittal

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2018-04-17

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1119378869

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A comprehensive text that reviews the methods and technologies that explore emergent behavior in complex systems engineering in multidisciplinary fields In Emergent Behavior in Complex Systems Engineering, the authors present the theoretical considerations and the tools required to enable the study of emergent behaviors in manmade systems. Information Technology is key to today’s modern world. Scientific theories introduced in the last five decades can now be realized with the latest computational infrastructure. Modeling and simulation, along with Big Data technologies are at the forefront of such exploration and investigation. The text offers a number of simulation-based methods, technologies, and approaches that are designed to encourage the reader to incorporate simulation technologies to further their understanding of emergent behavior in complex systems. The authors present a resource for those designing, developing, managing, operating, and maintaining systems, including system of systems. The guide is designed to help better detect, analyse, understand, and manage the emergent behaviour inherent in complex systems engineering in order to reap the benefits of innovations and avoid the dangers of unforeseen consequences. This vital resource: Presents coverage of a wide range of simulation technologies Explores the subject of emergence through the lens of Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Offers contributions from authors at the forefront of various related disciplines such as philosophy, science, engineering, sociology, and economics Contains information on the next generation of complex systems engineering Written for researchers, lecturers, and students, Emergent Behavior in Complex Systems Engineering provides an overview of the current discussions on complexity and emergence, and shows how systems engineering methods in general and simulation methods in particular can help in gaining new insights in complex systems engineering.

Informal Coalitions
Informal Coalitions

Author: C. Rodgers

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2006-10-10

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0230625215

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This book places everyday talk and role-modelling interactions at the forefront of an alternative change-leadership agenda, and introduces a number of practical approaches to help line managers and organizational specialists deliver this agenda more successfully. It is essential reading for organizational practitioners at all levels.

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-gatherers
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-gatherers

Author: Vicki Cummings

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 1361

ISBN-13: 0199551227

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This book provides a comprehensive review of hunter-gatherer studies, undertaking detailed regional and thematic case-studies that span the archaeology, history and anthropology of hunter gatherers, concluding with an in-depth review of the main opportunities, research questions, and moral obligations that lie ahead.

Cooperation and Collective Action
Cooperation and Collective Action

Author: David M. Carballo

Publisher: University Press of Colorado

Published: 2012-12-15

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 1457174081

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"[Cooperation research] is one of the busiest and most exciting areas of transdisciplinary science right now, linking evolution, ecology and social science. . . this is the first major work or collection to address linkages between archaeology and cooperation research."—Michael E. Smith, Arizona State University Past archaeological literature on cooperation theory has emphasized competition's role in cultural evolution. As a result, bottom-up possibilities for group cooperation have been under theorized in favor of models stressing top-down leadership, while evidence from a range of disciplines has demonstrated humans to effectively sustain cooperative undertakings through a number of social norms and institutions. Cooperation and Collective Action is the first volume to focus on the use of archaeological evidence to understand cooperation and collective action. Disentangling the motivations and institutions that foster group cooperation among competitive individuals remains one of the few great conundrums within evolutionary theory. The breadth and material focus of archaeology provide a much needed complement to existing research on cooperation and collective action, which thus far has relied largely on game-theoretic modeling, surveys of college students from affluent countries, brief ethnographic experiments, and limited historic cases. In Cooperation and Collective Action, diverse case studies address the evolution of the emergence of norms, institutions, and symbols of complex societies through the last 10,000 years. This book is an important contribution to the literature on cooperation in human societies that will appeal to archaeologists and other scholars interested in cooperation research.

Social Emergence
Social Emergence

Author: R. Keith Sawyer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-10-27

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780521844642

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This book argues that societies are complex dynamical systems that can be understood through the concept of emergence.