The encultured brain : an introduction to neuroanthropology / / edited by Daniel H. Lende and Greg Downey
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| Titolo: |
The encultured brain : an introduction to neuroanthropology / / edited by Daniel H. Lende and Greg Downey
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| 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
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| 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 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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