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Cultural robotics : The culture of robotics and robotics in culture [PDF]
Copyright 2013 Samani et al.; licensee InTech. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and ...
Bern Bruxelles Frankfurt am Main +21 more
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If you are not sure what 'culture' means, you are not alone. In 1952, anthropologists Kroeber and Kluckhohn identified 164 definitions of culture and there has been growth rather than rationalisation in the ensuing 70 years. In everyday English, culture is the knowledge and behaviour that characterises a particular group of people.
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The cultural evolution of cultural evolution [PDF]
What makes fast, cumulative cultural evolution work? Where did it come from? Why is it the sole preserve of humans? We set out a self-assembly hypothesis: cultural evolution evolved culturally. We present an evolutionary account that shows this hypothesis to be coherent, plausible, and worthy of further investigation. It has the following steps: (0) in
Jonathan Birch, Cecilia Heyes
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AbstractThis article summarizes the definitions, means, and research of adapting psychotherapy to clients' cultural backgrounds. We begin by reviewing the prevailing definitions of cultural adaptation and providing a clinical example. We present an original meta‐analysis of 65 experimental and quasi‐experimental studies involving 8,620 participants ...
Smith, Timothy B. +2 more
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Confronting “Culture” in Medicineʼs “Culture of No Culture” [PDF]
The author presents reflections from medical anthropology on the institutional culture of medicine and medical education, which sees itself as a "culture of no culture" and which systematically tends to foster static and essentialist conceptions of "culture" as applied to patients.
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Religion as practices of attachment and materiality: the making of Buddhism in contemporary London [PDF]
This article aims to explore Buddhism’s often-overlooked presence on London’s urban landscape, showing how its quietness and subtlety of approach has allowed the faith to grow largely beneath the radar. It argues that Buddhism makes claims to urban space
Barker Eileen +35 more
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Bulgarian sport policy 1945-1989: A strategic relation perspective [PDF]
The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games have stimulated discussions about the success of different sport systems and the Chinese model in particular. Revisiting explanations of sport in the former communist countries of Eastern Europe during the Cold War seems ...
Bankov P. +39 more
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Culture and cultures in tourism [PDF]
In this special issue of Anatolia, we explore a number of new trends and products related to cultural tourism, searching for a deeper understanding of how culture is becoming a central factor of attraction in tourism. Contributed papers deal with a number of on-going trends in cultural tourism, including the importance of heritage valuing for ...
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The question of the book is how a radical critique of capitalism is possible when critique in the tradition of Kant and Hegel means that the criticized subject itself has to “give” the measure of its critique.
Identities Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture +1 more
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Motivation and Organizational Culture on Performance with Self-efficacy Mediation [PDF]
The study aims to determine firstly the direct effect of motivation on performance,secondly the indirect effect of motivation on performance mediated by self efficacy, thirdlythe direct influence of organizational culture on the performance, and lastly ...
Heriningsih, S. (Sucahyo) +1 more
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