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Titolo: | The encultured brain [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction to neuroanthropology / / edited by Daniel H. Lende and Greg Downey |
Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (449 p.) |
Disciplina: | 612.8 |
Soggetto topico: | Anthropology |
Health - Social aspects | |
Medicine | |
Mental health - Social aspects | |
Neuroanthropology | |
Neurosciences | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | DowneyGreg LendeDaniel H. <1969-> |
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: | 1-283-58721-1 |
9786613899668 | |
0-262-30567-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910462241903321 |
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