Understanding Cultural Traits

1. Cultural Traits and Multidisciplinary Dialogue
Fabrizio Panebianco, Emanuele Serrelli

2. Understanding Cultural Diversity. Culture, Cultural Traits and Cultural Changes Between Global and Local Scales
Vincenzo Matera

3. Cultural Traits and Identity
Ugo E. M. Fabietti

4. The Diffusion of a Museum Exhibit: The Case of the Transparent Man
Elena Canadelli

5. The ‘Incompetent Subject’ in the Kingdom of Technical Terms. A Possible Role of Pedagogy in the Study of Cultural Traits
Rossana Brambilla

6. The Unary Trait of Psychoanalysis. Identification, Transmission, Generation
Matteo Bonazzi

7. Cultural Diversities Across and Within Cultures: The Bicultural Mind
Olivia Realdon, Valentino Zurloni

8. Birth and Evolution of Jazz as Effects of Cultural Transfers
Stefano Zenni

9. Geographical Boundaries as Places of Meeting and Diffusion of Cultural Traits
Stefano Malatesta, Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg, Enrico Squarcina

10. Maps, Diagrams and Charts: Making the Cultural Trait Visible
Fulvio Carmagnola

11. Evolutionary Genetics and Cultural Traits in a ‘Body of Theory’ Perspective
Emanuele Serrelli

12. Cultural Traits in Economic Theory
Fabrizio Panebianco

13. International Cooperation and Cultural Transmission
Isa Gama

14. Rethinking Organizational Culture: The Role of Generational Subcultures
Alessandra Lazazzara

15. From Material Remains to Culture: The Possibilities and Limits of Archaeology in Reconstructing Ancient People
Viviana Ardesia

16. Homology and Phylogenetic Inference in Biological and Material Cultural Evolution
Ilya Tëmkin

17. On the Origin of Technologies: The Invention and Evolution of the Bow-and-Arrow
Giuseppe Carignani

18. Trees, Languages and Genes: A Historical Path
Federica Milano, Nicoletta Puddu

19. Signaling in Style: On Cooperation, Identity and the Origins of Visual Art
Larissa Mendoza Straffon

20. Aesthetic Preferences: An Evolutionary Approach
Mariagrazia Portera, Lorenzo Bartalesi

21. Nothing But Survival: On the Origin and Function of Literature
Mario Barenghi

22. Concluding Remarks
Emanuele Serrelli

Keywords: Social Sciences, Cultural Studies, Methodology of the Social Sciences