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The encultured brain : an introduction to neuroanthropology / edited by Daniel H. Lende and Greg Downey.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neuroanthropology.
- Anthropology.
- Neurosciences.
- Health--Social aspects.
- Health.
- Mental health--Social aspects.
- Mental health.
- Medicine--Humor.
- Medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (449 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Basic concepts and case studies from an emerging field that investigates human capacities and pathologies at the intersection of brain and culture.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-30474-0
- 1-283-58721-1
- 9786613899668
- 0-262-30567-4
- OCLC:
- 810931639
- Publisher Number:
- 9786613899668
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