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 science, in which social science questions are addressed in a deliberately eclectic manner, combining results and models from evolutionary biology, experimental psychology, economics, anthropology and history. I...
Éditeur : Open Book Publishers
Lieu d’édition : Cambridge
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 27 janvier 2022
ISBN numérique : 979-10-365-2949-8
Collection : OBP collection
Année d’édition : 2021
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-1-80064-206-5
Nombre de pages : iv-284
An introduction
Michael Bang Petersen et Pascal Boyer
The naturalness of (many) social institutionsEvolved cognition as their Foundation
Pierre Liénard et Pascal Boyer
Why ritualized behavior?Precaution systems and action parsing in developmental, pathological and cultural Rituals
Rengin Firat, Florian Van Leeuwen et Pascal Boyer
Safety, threat, and stress in intergroup relationsA Coalitional index model
A Cognitive background to Folk-Psychiatries
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 science, in which social science questions are addressed in a deliberately eclectic manner, combining results and models from evolutionary biology, experimental psychology, economics, anthropology and history. It thus constitutes a welcome contribution to a gradually emerging approach to social science based on E. O. Wilson’s concept of ‘consilience’
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Human Cultures through the Scientific Lens spans a wide range of topics, from an examination of ritual behaviour, integrating neuro-science, ethology and anthropology to explain why humans engage in ritual actions (both cultural and individual), to the motivation of conflicts between groups. As such, the collection gives readers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the applications of an evolutionary paradigm in the social sciences.
This volume will be a useful resource for scholars and students in the social sciences (particularly psychology, anthropology, evolutionary biology and the political sciences), as well as a general readership interested in the social sciences.
After teaching in Cambridge, San Diego, Lyon and Santa Barbara, Pascal Boyer moved to his present position at the departments of anthropology and psychology at Washington University, St. Louis. He is the author of, among other publications, Religion Explained (Basic Books, 2001) and Minds make societies (Yale UP, 2018).
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