Connections : brain, mind, and culture in a social anthropology / / Stephen P. Reyna

• Autore: Reyna Stephen P
• Pubblicazione: London, : Routledge, 2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (228 p.)
• Disciplina: 306
• Soggetto topico: Culture; Cognition and culture; Ethnopsychology; Neurobiology; Hermeneutics
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Connections; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction; String being; The approach; The argument; PART I Bungled connections; 2 Conjectural hermeneutics and 'insurmountable dualism'; Agnoiology; A conjecturalist world of impression management; Cartesian dualism; Conclusion; 3 Confronting the 'insurmountable'; Ghost Busters I; Ghost Buster II; Social monism; PART II The connector; 4 Neurohermeneutics; Knotty causation; Hermeneutics; Neurohermeneutics; Conclusion; 5 A neurohermeneutic theory of culture ; A (Boasian) revolution in the (Kantian) revolutionTwo cultures; An interpretive hierarchy; Conclusion; PART III Coda; 6 What neurohermeneutics is not and is: is not a biological über-determinism; is a knotty causation; Is not an über-determinism; Is a knotty causal determinism; 7 A Boasian social anthropology; Notes; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Have you ever wondered how the internal space of our brain connects with the external space of society? Drawing on hermeneutics and neuroscience Stephen Reyna develops an anthropological theory that explains the relationship between the biological and the cultural.Recent popular interest in the brain is evident, and now social anthropologists are starting to consider connections between science and anthropology. Reyna is an anthropologist prepared to tackle big and difficult questions. This accessibly written book will cause quite a stir in anthropology, and will appeal to those interested
• Titolo autorizzato: Connections
• ISBN: 1-134-48702-9; 1-280-05666-5; 0-203-39815-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826642403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II