Memory in Mind and Culture

Memory in Mind and Culture
Author: Pascal Boyer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2009-06-08
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 052176078X

This text introduces students, scholars, and interested educated readers to the issues of human memory broadly considered, encompassing both individual memory, collective remembering by societies, and the construction of history. The book is organised around several major questions: How do memories construct our past? How do we build shared collective memories? How does memory shape history? This volume presents a special perspective, emphasising the role of memory processes in the construction of self-identity, of shared cultural norms and concepts, and of historical awareness. Although the results are fairly new and the techniques suitably modern, the vision itself is of course related to the work of such precursors as Frederic Bartlett and Aleksandr Luria, who in very different ways represent the starting point of a serious psychology of human culture.

Culture, Mind, and Brain

Culture, Mind, and Brain
Author: Laurence J. Kirmayer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 683
Release: 2020-09-24
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1108580572

Recent neuroscience research makes it clear that human biology is cultural biology - we develop and live our lives in socially constructed worlds that vary widely in their structure values, and institutions. This integrative volume brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from the human, social, and biological sciences to explore culture, mind, and brain interactions and their impact on personal and societal issues. Contributors provide a fresh look at emerging concepts, models, and applications of the co-constitution of culture, mind, and brain. Chapters survey the latest theoretical and methodological insights alongside the challenges in this area, and describe how these new ideas are being applied in the sciences, humanities, arts, mental health, and everyday life. Readers will gain new appreciation of the ways in which our unique biology and cultural diversity shape behavior and experience, and our ongoing adaptation to a constantly changing world.

Reconstructing the Cognitive World

Reconstructing the Cognitive World
Author: Michael Wheeler
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2005
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780262232401

An argument for a non-Cartesian philosophical foundation for cognitive science that combines elements of Heideggerian phenomenology, a dynamical systems approach to cognition, and insights from artificial intelligence-related robotics.

Encyclopedia of Archaeology

Encyclopedia of Archaeology
Author: Deborah M. Pearsall
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 2382
Release: 2008
Genre: Antiquities
ISBN: 9780125480314

The Encyclopedia of Archaeology encompasses all aspects of archaeology, including the nature and diversity of archaeology as a scientific discipline, the practice of archaeology, archaeology in the everyday world, and the future of the discipline. Featured in the Encyclopedia of Archaeology are articles by leading authors that summarize archaeological knowledge at the beginning the 21st century, highlighting important sites and issues, and tracing the development of prehistoric cultures around the globe.

Perception and Cognition in Language and Culture

Perception and Cognition in Language and Culture
Author: Alexandra Aikhenvald
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2013-01-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004233679

Every language has a way of talking about seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching. This can be done through lexical means, and through grammatical evidentials. The studies presented here focus on the experssions of perception and cognition in languages of Africa, Oceania, and South America.

Culture and Cognition

Culture and Cognition
Author: Bradley Franks
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2011-04-05
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1350312185

Human culture depends on human minds for its creation, meaning and exchange. But minds also depend on culture for their contents and processes. Past resolutions to this circularity problem have tended to give too much weight to one side and too little weight to the other. In this groundbreaking and timely work, Bradley Franks demonstrates how a more plausible resolution to the circularity problem emerges from reframing mind and culture and their relations in evolutionary terms. He proposes an alternative evolutionary approach that draws on views of mind as embodied and situated. By grounding social construction in evolution, evolution of mind is intrinsically connected to culture – resolving the circularity problem. In developing his theory, Franks provides a balanced critical assessment of modularity-based and social constructionist approaches to understanding mind and culture.

Abstraction and Representation

Abstraction and Representation
Author: Peter Damerow
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2013-06-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 9401586241

This book deals with the development of thinking under different cultural conditions, focusing on the evolution of mathematical thinking in the history of science and education. Starting from Piaget's genetic epistemology, it provides a conceptual framework for describing and explaining the development of cognition by reflective abstractions from systems of actions.