1st Edition
The Debated Mind Evolutionary Psychology versus Ethnography
Edited By Harvey Whitehouse
Copyright 2001
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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In a further development of the nature-nurture debate, this collection of articles questions how the human mind influences the content and organization of culture. In the study of mental activity, can the effects of evolution and history be teased apart? Evolutionary psychologists argue that cultural transmission is constrained by our genetic inheritance. Few social and cultural anthropologists... Read more
PART ONE Mental Modularity and Cultural Diversity, Cultural Inheritance Tracks and Cognitive Predispositions : The Example of Religious Concepts, Some Elements of a Science of Culture, PART TWO From the Transmission of Representations to the Education of Attention, The Child in Mind, Steps to an Integration of Developmental Cognitivism and Depth Psychology, Conclusion: Towards a Reconciliation
Biography
Harvey Whitehouse The Queen's University at Belfast
