How Things Shape the Mind : A Theory of Material Engagement.
Malafouris, Lambros.
How Things Shape the Mind : A Theory of Material Engagement. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (321 pages) - The MIT Press Series . - The MIT Press Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- I Cognition and Material Culture -- 2 Rethinking the Archaeology of Mind -- 3 The Material-Engagement Approach: A Summary of the Argument -- II Outline of a Theory of Material Engagement -- 4 The Extended Mind -- 5 The Enactive Sign -- 6 Material Agency -- III Marking the Mental: Where Brain, Body, and Culture Conflate -- 7 Knapping Intentions and the Handmade Mind -- 8 Thoughtful Marks, Lines, and Signs -- 9 Becoming One with the Clay -- 10 Epilogue: How Do Things Shape the Mind? -- Notes -- References -- Index.
An account of the different ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the human body, from prehistory to the present.
9780262315661
Neuroanthropology.
Material culture.
Archaeology.
Cognition and culture.
Neuropsychology.
Electronic books.
QP360.6.M35 2013eb
612.8
How Things Shape the Mind : A Theory of Material Engagement. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (321 pages) - The MIT Press Series . - The MIT Press Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- I Cognition and Material Culture -- 2 Rethinking the Archaeology of Mind -- 3 The Material-Engagement Approach: A Summary of the Argument -- II Outline of a Theory of Material Engagement -- 4 The Extended Mind -- 5 The Enactive Sign -- 6 Material Agency -- III Marking the Mental: Where Brain, Body, and Culture Conflate -- 7 Knapping Intentions and the Handmade Mind -- 8 Thoughtful Marks, Lines, and Signs -- 9 Becoming One with the Clay -- 10 Epilogue: How Do Things Shape the Mind? -- Notes -- References -- Index.
An account of the different ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the human body, from prehistory to the present.
9780262315661
Neuroanthropology.
Material culture.
Archaeology.
Cognition and culture.
Neuropsychology.
Electronic books.
QP360.6.M35 2013eb
612.8