The Fifth Dalhousie Drawing Exhibition

Exhibitor/curator Whiten describes a vision coincident with the Fifth Dalhousie Drawing exhibition. Text by the six participating artists. Brief biographical notes

Down Under : 3 + 3 + 9 : Sculptors in Exchange : Autralia and Canada

Summarizing the shifts in sculptural practice since the 1970s and identifying the participants as part of a new global awareness, Aarons presents the premise behind a collaborative exhibition of three Australian and three Canadian sculptors in collaboration with nine other Canadians. Includes six artist's statements. Biographical notes

Cultura e inteligência: reflexões antropológicas sobre aspectos não físicos da evolução em chimpanzés e humanos Culture and intelligence: anthropological reflections on non-physical aspects of evolution in chimpanzees and humans

Trata da história recente dos estudos sobre o comportamento de chimpanzés, enfatizando os resultados das pesquisas, as proposições acerca da existência de 'culturas de chimpanzés' e sua validade. O trabalho problematiza a ideia a partir dos mecanismos de transmissão e aprendizado social bem como de concepções antropológicas e paleoantropológicas de cultura que associam tal fenômeno, entre humanos modernos, às suas capacidades simbólicas e cognitivas.<br>The scope of this work is the recent history of studies on the behavior of chimpanzees, emphasizing research results, propositions about the existence of 'chimpanzee cultures' and their validity. The work discusses the idea based on transmission mechanisms and social learning as well as anthropological and paleoanthropological concepts of culture that associate such phenomena, among modern humans, to their symbolic and cognitive abilities