Human Cultures through the Scientific Lens : Essays in Evolutionary Cognitive Anthropology / Pascal Boyer |
Autore | Boyer Pascal |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, : Open Book Publishers, 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (iv-284 p.) |
Altri autori (Persone) |
Bang PetersenMichael
BoyerPascal FiratRengin LiénardPierre Van LeeuwenFlorian |
Soggetto topico |
History & Philosophy Of Science
history economics ritual social science neuroscience political science anthropology psychology ethology evolutionary biology experimental psychology human evolution |
ISBN | 979-1-03-652949-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910520203503321 |
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Human Cultures through the Scientific Lens : essays in evolutionary cognitive Anthropology / / Pascal Boyer |
Autore | Boyer Pascal |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, UK : , : Open Book Publishers, , 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (vi, 280 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 306.42 |
Soggetto topico |
Cognition and culture
Ethnopsychology |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The Naturalness of (Many) Social Institutions: Evolved Cognition as their Foundation / Pascal Boyer and Michael Bang Petersen -- Why Ritualized Behavior?: Precaution Systems and Action Parsing in Developmental, Pathological and Cultural Rituals / Pascal Boyer and Pierre Liénard -- Safety, Threat, and Stress in Intergroup Relations: A Coalitional Index Model / Pascal Boyer, Rengin Firat and Florian van Leeuwen -- Folk-Economic Beliefs: An Evolutionary Cognitive Model / Pascal Boyer and Michael Bang Petersen -- 1. Anthropology, Useful and Scientific: An Introduction / Pascal Boyer -- 2. Institutions and Human Nature / Pascal Boyer -- The Naturalness of (Many) Social Institutions: Evolved Cognition as their Foundation / Pascal Boyer and Michael Bang Petersen -- Why Ritualized Behavior? / Pascal Boyer -- Why Ritualized Behavior?: Precaution Systems and Action Parsing in Developmental, Pathological and Cultural Rituals / Pascal Boyer and Pierre Liénard -- 4. Social Groups and Adapted Minds / Pascal Boyer -- Safety, Threat, and Stress in Intergroup Relations: A Coalitional Index Model / Pascal Boyer, Rengin Firat and Florian van Leeuwen -- 5. How People Think about the Economy / Pascal Boyer -- Folk-Economic Beliefs: An Evolutionary Cognitive Model / Pascal Boyer and Michael Bang Petersen -- 6. Detecting Mental Disorder / Pascal Boyer -- Intuitive Expectations and the Detection of Mental Disorder: A Cognitive Background to Folk-Psychiatries / Pascal Boyer -- 7. The Ideal of Integrated Social Science / Pascal Boyer -- Modes of Scholarship in the Study of Culture / Pascal Boyer -- List of Tables and Illustrations. |
Altri titoli varianti | Human Cultures through the Scientific Lens |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910493746003321 |
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Minds Make Societies : How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create / / Pascal Boyer |
Autore | Boyer Pascal |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2018] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (372 pages) |
Disciplina | 153 |
Soggetto topico | Cognition and culture |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-300-23517-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Human Societies through the Lens of Nature -- Six Problems in Search of a New Science -- One. What Is the Root of Group Conflict? Why "Tribalism" Is Not an Urge but a Computation -- Two. What Is Information For? Sound Minds, Odd Beliefs, and the Madness of Crowds -- Three. Why Are There Religions?...And Why Are They Such a Recent Thing? -- Four. What Is the Natural Family? From Sex to Kinship to Dominance -- Five. How Can Societies Be Just? How Cooperative Minds Create Fairness and Trade, and the Apparent Conflict between Them -- Six. Can Human Minds Understand Societies? Coordination, Folk Sociology, and Natural Politics -- Conclusion: Cognition and Communication Create Traditions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910480153403321 |
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New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2018] | ||
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Minds make societies : how cognition explains the world humans create / / Pascal Boyer |
Autore | Boyer Pascal |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, Connecticut : , : Yale University Press, , [2018] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (372 pages) |
Disciplina | 153 |
Soggetto topico |
Cognition and culture
Cognition Social evolution Socialization |
ISBN | 0-300-23517-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Human Societies through the Lens of Nature -- Six Problems in Search of a New Science -- One. What Is the Root of Group Conflict? Why "Tribalism" Is Not an Urge but a Computation -- Two. What Is Information For? Sound Minds, Odd Beliefs, and the Madness of Crowds -- Three. Why Are There Religions?...And Why Are They Such a Recent Thing? -- Four. What Is the Natural Family? From Sex to Kinship to Dominance -- Five. How Can Societies Be Just? How Cooperative Minds Create Fairness and Trade, and the Apparent Conflict between Them -- Six. Can Human Minds Understand Societies? Coordination, Folk Sociology, and Natural Politics -- Conclusion: Cognition and Communication Create Traditions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796804703321 |
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New Haven, Connecticut : , : Yale University Press, , [2018] | ||
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Minds make societies : how cognition explains the world humans create / / Pascal Boyer |
Autore | Boyer Pascal |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, Connecticut : , : Yale University Press, , [2018] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (372 pages) |
Disciplina | 153 |
Soggetto topico |
Cognition and culture
Cognition Social evolution Socialization |
ISBN | 0-300-23517-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Human Societies through the Lens of Nature -- Six Problems in Search of a New Science -- One. What Is the Root of Group Conflict? Why "Tribalism" Is Not an Urge but a Computation -- Two. What Is Information For? Sound Minds, Odd Beliefs, and the Madness of Crowds -- Three. Why Are There Religions?...And Why Are They Such a Recent Thing? -- Four. What Is the Natural Family? From Sex to Kinship to Dominance -- Five. How Can Societies Be Just? How Cooperative Minds Create Fairness and Trade, and the Apparent Conflict between Them -- Six. Can Human Minds Understand Societies? Coordination, Folk Sociology, and Natural Politics -- Conclusion: Cognition and Communication Create Traditions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825164703321 |
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New Haven, Connecticut : , : Yale University Press, , [2018] | ||
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Religion Explained [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Boyer Pascal |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Basic Books, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (385 p.) |
Disciplina | 200 |
Soggetto topico | Religion |
ISBN | 0-465-00461-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. What Is the Origin?; 2. What Supernatural Concepts are Like; 3. The Kind of Mind It Takes; 4. Why Gods and Spirits?; 5. Why Do Gods and Spirits Matter?; 6. Why Is Religion About Death?; 7. Why Rituals?; 8. Why Doctrines, Exclution, and Violence?; 9. Why Belief?; Further Readings; Notes; References; Index |
Altri titoli varianti | Religion Explained |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996248075303316 |
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New York, : Basic Books, 2007 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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