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CULTURAL CHANGES: A forthcoming issue of EXPRESSION quarterly journal. Dear colleague and friend, Please find enclosed the last issue of EXPRESSION. In it you will find the announcement of a forthcoming issue: “Changes, adaptation and development of intellectual and spiritual expressions”. How does the dynamic of change emerge from archeological living sites, cult sites, material culture, art, myths, beliefs, and other traces of human behavior? Climatic changes, changes in the geographical location and in food resources, migrations, conflict and peaceful meetings with other human groups, changes in the size and composition of social units, new inventions, development of technology, local social relations and events, discovery, conceptual elaborations, imagination, and other factors play their role. Man, as actor of his own destiny is no less important than man as spectator and victim of climatic events. Our task, in the CISENP International Scientific Commission, in ATELIER Research Center or in the pages of EXPRESSION journal, is not only recording the changes, but also understanding the processes and reasons that caused changes and development, and detect trends in human conceptual evolution. In previous issues of EXPRESSION some major pertinent issues were faced already, like the function of fire in cultural evolution, the query of how an age of hunter-gatherers in Tanzania suddenly turned into a period of vegetarian food-collectors, or how the conceptual content and the syntactic structure of rock art changed with the introduction of the bow-and-arrow. Asking questions is as important as proposing their eventual solutions. Do not hesitate to ask questions. Asking question is the source of human conceptual evolution. Proposing solutions to queries is the source of debate and of clarification. Colleagues and friends are invited to contribute with specific themes, sharing their experience, knowledge and ideas. When possible, consider the dynamic relations between cause and effect. Titles and short abstracts are welcome. Papers proposed for publication should be submitted to this editorial office before February 20, 2019. Please reply to:<[log in to unmask]>. Looking forward to hearing from you, Best wishes and cordial regards, Emmanuel Anati (President, Atelier Research Center for Conceptual Anthropology; Editor, ATELIER quarterly journal) ************************************************************* * Anthropology-Matters Mailing List * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * * To join this list or to look at the archived previous * * messages visit: * * https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/Anthropology-Matters * * If you have ALREADY subscribed: to send a message to all * * those currently subscribed to the list,just send mail to: * * [log in to unmask] * * * * Enjoyed the mailing list? Why not join the new * * CONTACTS SECTION @ www.anthropologymatters.com * * an international directory of anthropology researchers * To unsubscribe please click here: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=ANTHROPOLOGY-MATTERS&A=1 ***************************************************************