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The Encultured Brain : An Introduction to Neuroanthropology.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (449 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262305679
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Encultured BrainDDC classification:
  • 612.8
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: Basic concepts and case studies from an emerging field that investigates human capacities and pathologies at the intersection of brain and culture.
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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.

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