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There is much written about memes that is confused and confusing. The following brief annotated bibliography provides some pointers to the most helpful and least confusing sources of ideas about memes. See also Links to other useful sites and Sue Blackmore's publications on memes. Books on memes
Aunger,
R.A. (Ed) (2000) Darwinizing
Culture: The Status of Memetics as a Science, Oxford University Press (An
excellent collection of papers based on a conference in Cambridge. Authors
include Blackmore, Dawkins, Dennett, Plotkin, Sperber.)
Blackmore, S.J. (1999) The
Meme Machine, Oxford, Oxford University Press. Extract
Synopsis Reviews
Translations Balkin, J.M (1998) Cultural Software: A Theory of
Ideology, Yale University Press Bowker, J (1995) Is God a Virus?, London, SPCK Boyer, P (2001) Religion Explained, New York, Basic Books
 Dawkins, R. (1976)
The Selfish Gene Oxford, Oxford University
Press - also new edition with additional material, 1989. (The origin of the
term “meme” and still very much worth reading, relevant chapter
online) Buy from Amazon.co.uk
Dawkins, R. (2006) The God Delusion, Bantam Press. (Mostly a powerful onslaught on belief in God but with several sections on religions as memes)  Buy from Amazon.co.uk
Distin, Kate (2004) The Selfish Meme: A Critical Reassessment,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (good critical overview of
memetics).
Fog, Agner (1999) Cultural Selection, Kluver (in depth and full of
examples, much of it available
online).
Hofstadter, D. (1985) Metamagical Themas: Questing
for the essence of mind and pattern. N.Y. Basic Books (includes an interesting
section on viral sentences and self-replicating structures)
Hull, David (1990) Science as a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the
Social and Conceptual Development of Science, University of Chicago Press Hurley, S and Chater, N (2005) Perspectives on Imitation: From Mirror
Neurons to Memes. MIT Press, 2 volumes (based on a conference,
contributions from nearly 50 authors, including Blackmore, Byrne, Decety,
Donald, Gallese, Humphrey, Meltzoff, Tomasello and Whiten)
Jan, S. (2007) The Memetics of Music: A neo-Darwinian view of musical
structure and
McGrath, Alister E. (2004) Dawkins' God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of
Life, Oxford, Blackwell
Other languages Chinese: Xie,
Chaoqun, Ziran He and Blackmore, S. (2007) Memes misunderstood.
Comments on Liu (2006). Foreign Language Education 28(3):11-15. French: Blackmore, S. (2006) La théorie des mèmes, Paris, Max Milo French: Pascal Jouxtel (2005) Comment
les systèmes pondent : Une introduction à la mémétique Spanish: Ramirez, A.C. (2004) Genes y memes: Una aproximacion a la
teoria memetica de la evolucion cultural. Ediciones Taller Abierto, Mexico. Polish: Biedrzycki, Mariusz (1998) Genetyka kultury, ISBN
83-7180-347-8. I've been recommended this as the best polish book on memetics. Articles The best source of articles on memes is Memetics
publications on the web, though it has not been updated for some time. So I
am beginning to create a list here. Any suggestions welcome. Conley, J.P., Toossi A and Wooders, M. (2006) Memetics and voting: how
nature may make us public spirited, International Journal of Game Theory,
35, 71-90
Link to article See also - Sue Blackmore's articles on memes. |
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