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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785785203321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2012

©2012

ISBN

0-262-30474-0

1-283-58721-1

9786613899668

0-262-30567-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (449 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LendeDaniel H. <1969->

DowneyGreg

Disciplina

612.8

Soggetti

Neuroanthropology

Anthropology

Neurosciences

Health - Social aspects

Mental health - Social aspects

Medicine

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.