1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462241903321

Titolo

The encultured brain [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction to neuroanthropology / / edited by Daniel H. Lende and Greg Downey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-58721-1

9786613899668

0-262-30567-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (449 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DowneyGreg

LendeDaniel H. <1969->

Disciplina

612.8

Soggetti

Anthropology

Health - Social aspects

Medicine

Mental health - Social aspects

Neuroanthropology

Neurosciences

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; I On the Encultured Brain; 1 The Encultured Brain: Development, Case Studies, and Methods; 2 Neuroanthropology and the Encultured Brain; 3 Primate Social Cognition, Human Evolution, and Niche Construction: A Core Context for Neuroanthropology; 4 Evolution and the Brain; II Case Studies on Human Capacities, Skills, and Variation; 5 Memory and Medicine; 6 Balancing between Cultures: Equilibrium in Capoeira; 7 From Habits of Doing to Habits of Feeling: Skill Acquisition in Taijutsu Practice; 8 Holistic Humor: Coping with Breast Cancer

9 Embodiment and Male Vitality in Subsistence SocietiesIII Case Studies on Human Problems, Pathologies, and Variation; 10 War and Dislocation: A Neuroanthropological Model of Trauma among American Veterans with Combat PTSD; 11 Autism as a Case for Neuroanthropology: Delineating the Role of Theory of Mind in Religious



Development; 12 Collective Excitement and Lapse in Agency: Fostering an Appetite for Cigarettes; 13 Addiction and Neuroanthropology; 14 Cultural Consonance, Consciousness, and Depression:Genetic Moderating Effects on the Psychological Mediators of Culture; IV Conclusion

15 The Encultured Brain-Toward the FutureContributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Basic concepts and case studies from an emerging field that investigates human capacities and pathologies at the intersection of brain and culture.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781495503321

Autore

Dullien Sebastian

Titolo

Decent capitalism [[electronic resource] ] : a blueprint for reforming our economies / / Sebastian Dullien, Hansjörg Herr and Christian Kellermann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Pluto Press, 2011

ISBN

1-78371-676-2

1-84964-584-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Classificazione

83.21

Altri autori (Persone)

HerrHansjörg

KellermannChristian

Disciplina

330.122

Soggetti

Capitalism

Capitalism - Europe

Economics

Economics - Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The roots of crisis capitalism -- pt. 2. The path to decent capitalism.