LEADER 04427nam 22006855 450 001 9910136125503321 005 20200424112023.0 010 $a0-226-40143-X 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226401430 035 $a(CKB)3710000000914962 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4526384 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001585311 035 $a(DE-B1597)524876 035 $a(OCoLC)961211336 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226401430 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000914962 100 $a20200424h20162016 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aDark Matter of the Mind $eThe Culturally Articulated Unconscious /$fDaniel L. Everett 210 1$aChicago : $cUniversity of Chicago Press, $d[2016] 210 4$d©2016 215 $a1 online resource (395 pages) 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2016. 311 $a0-226-07076-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. The Nature and Pedigree of Dark Matter -- $t2. The Ranked- Value Theory of Culture -- $t3. The Ontogenesis and Construction of Dark Matter -- $t4. Dark Matter as Hermeneutics -- $t5. The Presupposed Dark Matter of Texts -- $t6. The Dark Matter of Grammar -- $t7. Gestures, Culture, and Homesigns -- $t8. Dark Matter Confrontations in Translation -- $t9. Beyond Instincts -- $t10. Beyond Human Nature -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aIs it in our nature to be altruistic, or evil, to make art, use tools, or create language? Is it in our nature to think in any particular way? For Daniel L. Everett, the answer is a resounding no: it isn't in our nature to do any of these things because human nature does not exist-at least not as we usually think of it. Flying in the face of major trends in Evolutionary Psychology and related fields, he offers a provocative and compelling argument in this book that the only thing humans are hardwired for is freedom: freedom from evolutionary instinct and freedom to adapt to a variety of environmental and cultural contexts. Everett sketches a blank-slate picture of human cognition that focuses not on what is in the mind but, rather, what the mind is in-namely, culture. He draws on years of field research among the Amazonian people of the Pirahã in order to carefully scrutinize various theories of cognitive instinct, including Noam Chomsky's foundational concept of universal grammar, Freud's notions of unconscious forces, Adolf Bastian's psychic unity of mankind, and works on massive modularity by evolutionary psychologists such as Leda Cosmides, John Tooby, Jerry Fodor, and Steven Pinker. Illuminating unique characteristics of the Pirahã language, he demonstrates just how differently various cultures can make us think and how vital culture is to our cognitive flexibility. Outlining the ways culture and individual psychology operate symbiotically, he posits a Buddhist-like conception of the cultural self as a set of experiences united by various apperceptions, episodic memories, ranked values, knowledge structures, and social roles-and not, in any shape or form, biological instinct. The result is fascinating portrait of the "dark matter of the mind," one that shows that our greatest evolutionary adaptation is adaptability itself. 606 $aSubconsciousness 606 $aKnowledge, Theory of 606 $aContext effects (Psychology) 606 $aCognition and culture 606 $aLanguage and culture 606 $aPhilosophical anthropology 610 $aAnatman. 610 $aapperception. 610 $acognitive science. 610 $aculture. 610 $alinguistics. 610 $amissionary. 610 $anativism. 610 $aunconscious. 615 0$aSubconsciousness. 615 0$aKnowledge, Theory of. 615 0$aContext effects (Psychology) 615 0$aCognition and culture. 615 0$aLanguage and culture. 615 0$aPhilosophical anthropology. 676 $a154.2 686 $aCC 6600$2rvk 700 $aEverett$b Daniel L., $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0165944 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136125503321 996 $aDark Matter of the Mind$92068336 997 $aUNINA