Human Cultures through the Scientific Lens : : essays in evolutionary cognitive Anthropology /

Human Cultures through the Scientific Lens : : essays in evolutionary cognitive Anthropology / / Pascal Boyer.

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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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Boyer, Pascal,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, UK : : Open Book Publishers,, 2021.
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (vi, 280 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • The Naturalness of (Many) Social Institutions: Evolved Cognition as their Foundation / Pascal Boyer and Michael Bang Petersen
  • Why Ritualized Behavior?: Precaution Systems and Action Parsing in Developmental, Pathological and Cultural Rituals / Pascal Boyer and Pierre Liénard
  • Safety, Threat, and Stress in Intergroup Relations: A Coalitional Index Model / Pascal Boyer, Rengin Firat and Florian van Leeuwen
  • Folk-Economic Beliefs: An Evolutionary Cognitive Model / Pascal Boyer and Michael Bang Petersen
  • 1. Anthropology, Useful and Scientific: An Introduction / Pascal Boyer
  • 2. Institutions and Human Nature / Pascal Boyer
  • The Naturalness of (Many) Social Institutions: Evolved Cognition as their Foundation / Pascal Boyer and Michael Bang Petersen
  • Why Ritualized Behavior? / Pascal Boyer
  • Why Ritualized Behavior?: Precaution Systems and Action Parsing in Developmental, Pathological and Cultural Rituals / Pascal Boyer and Pierre Liénard
  • 4. Social Groups and Adapted Minds / Pascal Boyer
  • Safety, Threat, and Stress in Intergroup Relations: A Coalitional Index Model / Pascal Boyer, Rengin Firat and Florian van Leeuwen
  • 5. How People Think about the Economy / Pascal Boyer
  • Folk-Economic Beliefs: An Evolutionary Cognitive Model / Pascal Boyer and Michael Bang Petersen
  • 6. Detecting Mental Disorder / Pascal Boyer
  • Intuitive Expectations and the Detection of Mental Disorder: A Cognitive Background to Folk-Psychiatries / Pascal Boyer
  • 7. The Ideal of Integrated Social Science / Pascal Boyer
  • Modes of Scholarship in the Study of Culture / Pascal Boyer
  • List of Tables and Illustrations.

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