"Dan Sperber is to be thanked for continuing to contribute to dialogue between the cognitive and social branches of the human sciences." <i>Daniel Nettle, Merton College Oxford</i><br /> <p><br /> </p> <p>"Apart from its wealth of insight, cogent arguments, apposite illustrations, and lucid and entertaining prose, <i>Explaining Culture</i> also offers a glimpse of what cultural study might be: rather than foreclosing possibilities on the strength of received wisdom or a selective interdisciplinary which rules out so much interesting thinking, it makes its own start on the formulation of fresh, apparently basic but at the same time far-reaching research questions. <i>Alan Durant</i><br /> </p> <p>"Sperber emphasizes macro-and micro-processes of distribution that make cultural transformation and individual development possible and most simply processes of replication. Sperber offers the beginnings of a naturalistic theory of both culture and religion that will interest students and scholars alike." <i>Susan Henking, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Geneva</i><br /> </p> <p>"<i>Explaining Culture</i> is a good read. It is full of interesting suggestions on a wide range of anthropological and psychological issues." <i>Kim Sterelny, Music and Letters, Vol 110, July 2001.</i></p>