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Title The encultured brain : an introduction to neuroanthropology / edited by Daniel H. Lende and Greg Downey.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 438 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents On the encultured brain: Encultured brain : development, case studies, and methods / Daniel H. Lende, Greg Downey. Neuroanthropology and the encultured brain / Greg Downey, Daniel H. Lende. Primate social cognition, human evolution, and niche construction : a core context for neuroanthropology / Katherine C. MacKinnon, Agustin Fuentes. Evolution and the brain / Greg Downey, Daniel H. Lende -- Case studies on human capacities, skills, and variation: Memory and medicine / M. Cameron Hay. Balancing between cultures : equilibrium in capoeira / Greg Downey. From habits of doing to habits of feeling : skill acquisition in taijutsu practice / Katja Pettinen. Holistic humor : coping with breast cancer / Kathryn Bouskill. Embodiment and male vitality in subsistence societies / Benjamin Campbell -- Case studies on human problems, pathologies, and variation: War and dislocation : a nueroanthropological model of trauma among American veterans with combat PTSD / Erin P. Finley. Autism as a case for neuroanthropology : delineating the role of theory of mind in religious development / Rachel S. Brezis. Collective excitement and lapse in agency : fostering an appetite for cigarettes / Peter G. Stromberg. Addiction and neuroanthropology / Daniel H. Lende. Cultural consonance, consciousness, and depression : genetic moderating effects on the psychological mediators of culture / William W. Dressler, Mauro C. Balieiro, José Ernesto dos Santos -- Conclusion: Encultured brain: toward the future / Daniel H. Lende, Greg Downey.
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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Subject Neuroanthropology.
Neuroanthropology.
Anthropology.
Anthropology.
Neurosciences.
Neurosciences.
Health -- Social aspects.
Health -- Social aspects.
Mental health -- Social aspects.
Mental health -- Social aspects.
Mental health.
Medicine -- Humor.
Medicine.
Genre/Form Humor.
Subject Mental Processes -- physiology.
Brain.
Culture.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Humor.
Added Author Lende, Daniel H., 1969-
Downey, Greg.
Other Form: Print version: Encultured brain. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012 9780262017787 (DLC) 2011052298 (OCoLC)778988021
ISBN 9780262305679 (electronic book)
0262305674 (electronic book)
1283587211
9781283587211
9780262017787
0262017784
Standard No. 9786613899668