Human Cultures Through the Scientific Lens : : Essays in Evolutionary Cognitive Anthropology.
This volume brings together a collection of seven articles previously published by the author, with a new introduction reframing the articles in the context of past and present questions in anthropology, psychology and human evolution. It promotes the perspective of 'integrated' social sci...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, UK : : Open Book Publishers,, 2021. ©2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (292 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- The Naturalness of (Many) Social Institutions: Evolved Cognition as their Foundation 15
- Why Ritualized Behavior? Precaution Systems and Action Parsing in Developmental, Pathological and Cultural Rituals 53
- Safety, Threat, and Stress in Intergroup Relations: A Coalitional Index Model 117
- Folk-Economic Beliefs: An Evolutionary Cognitive Model 159
- 1. Anthropology, Useful and Scientific: An Introduction
- 2. Institutions and Human Nature
- The Naturalness of (Many) Social Institutions: Evolved Cognition as their Foundation
- 3. Why Ritualized Behavior?
- Why Ritualized Behavior? Precaution Systems and Action Parsing in Developmental, Pathological and Cultural Rituals
- 4. Social Groups and Adapted Minds
- Safety, Threat, and Stress in Intergroup Relations: A Coalitional Index Model
- 5. How People Think about the Economy
- Folk-Economic Beliefs: An Evolutionary Cognitive Model
- 6. Detecting Mental Disorder
- Intuitive Expectations and the Detection of Mental Disorder: A Cognitive Background to Folk-Psychiatries
- 7. The Ideal of Integrated Social Science
- Modes of Scholarship in the Study of Culture
- List of Tables and Illustrations.