Similar environments and technologies produce divergent cultural systems.

Evidence

Although a vocal minority of anthropologists believe that all important forms of cultural variation can be explained by differences in the physical or biological environment or in technology (Harris 1979), most anthropologists are convinced that these factors are not sufficient to explain most cultural differences. History, linguistic studies, and the ethnographic record furnish evidence that groups possessing entirely different religious systems, social structures, and domestic relations may inhabit similar environments and possess similar technologies. — Joe Henrich and Robert Boyd, The Evolution of Conformist…, 9

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Societies sharing identical technology and environment can diverge sharply in social organization. — Joe Henrich and Robert Boyd, The Evolution of Conformist…, 107; Similar technologies in similar environments do not force similar cultural systems. — Joe Henrich and Robert Boyd, The Evolution of Conformist…, 106; Technology’s cultural effects are mediated by late capitalism not deterministically — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 410 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Similar technologies in similar environments do not force similar cultural systems. #corroborates (0.96) — Joe Henrich and Robert Boyd, The Evolution of Conformist…, 106
• Societies sharing identical technology and environment can diverge sharply in social organization. #corroborates (0.95) — Joe Henrich and Robert Boyd, The Evolution of Conformist…, 107
• Technology’s cultural effects are mediated by late capitalism not deterministically #qualifies (0.85) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 410
• Human cultures historically vary with their material or productive basis #contradicts (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 861
• Human culture and the natural environment form an interdependent dialectical system. #complicates (0.78) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 251
• Modernism, modernity, and modernization are distinct concepts with uneven circulation across nations #exemplifies (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 663
• Cultural forms ossify and drift apart from the life that created them #complicates (0.73) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 837
• Cultural history is the struggle between similarity and difference. #complicates (0.72) — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 1812