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

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2012; ©2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (449 p.)
• Disciplina: 612.8
• Soggetto topico: Neuroanthropology; Anthropology; Neurosciences; Health - Social aspects; Mental health - Social aspects; Medicine
• Soggetto non controllato: COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General; SOCIAL SCIENCES/Anthropology & Archaeology; COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology
• Altri autori: LendeDaniel H. <1969-> DowneyGreg
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The encultured brain
• ISBN: 0-262-30474-0; 1-283-58721-1; 9786613899668; 0-262-30567-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785785203321
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