The Encultured Brain : An Introduction to Neuroanthropology.
Lende, Daniel H.
The Encultured Brain : An Introduction to Neuroanthropology. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (449 pages) - The MIT Press Series . - The MIT Press Series .
Intro -- 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 Societies -- III 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 Future -- Contributors -- Index.
Basic concepts and case studies from an emerging field that investigates human capacities and pathologies at the intersection of brain and culture.
9780262305679
Anthropology.
Health -- Social aspects.
Medicine -- Humor.
Mental health -- Social aspects.
Neuroanthropology.
Neurosciences.
Electronic books.
612.8
The Encultured Brain : An Introduction to Neuroanthropology. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (449 pages) - The MIT Press Series . - The MIT Press Series .
Intro -- 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 Societies -- III 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 Future -- Contributors -- Index.
Basic concepts and case studies from an emerging field that investigates human capacities and pathologies at the intersection of brain and culture.
9780262305679
Anthropology.
Health -- Social aspects.
Medicine -- Humor.
Mental health -- Social aspects.
Neuroanthropology.
Neurosciences.
Electronic books.
612.8