Culture, Mind, and Brain
Emerging Concepts, Models, and Applications

This book uses cutting-edge work in neuroscience, social sciences, and humanities to explore the interactions of culture, mind, and brain.

Laurence J. Kirmayer (Edited by), Carol M. Worthman (Edited by), Shinobu Kitayama (Edited by), Robert Lemelson (Edited by), Constance A. Cummings (Edited by)

9781108705967, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 4 August 2022

558 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 2.9 cm, 0.81 kg

'I was just getting used to the age of enactivism. It is now clear that attention to culture will bring the next paradigm shift. This book is a great foundational resource. It foreshadows the way we are going to think about ourselves in the next decade - gracefully spanning from dopamine receptors to the extended evolutionary synthesis, from connectomes to predictive processing. In short, all our favourite things are here - and are woven together beautifully.' Karl Friston, FRS, University College London

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.

1. Co-Constructing Culture, Mind and Brain Laurence Kirmayer, Carol Worthman, and Shinobu Kitayama
Part I. Dynamics of Culture, Mind, and Brain: Models and Evidence
2. Culture, Mind, and Brain in Human Evolution: An Extended Evolutionary Perspective on Paleolithic Toolmaking as Embodied Practice Dietrich Stout
3. Mutual Constitution of Culture and the Mind: Insights From Cultural Neuroscience Shinobu Kitayama, Qinggang Yu
4. Being There: Foundations, Theory, Method Carol M. Worthman
5. Culture in Mind – An Enactivist Account: Not Cognitive Penetration but Cultural Permeation Daniel D. Hutto, Shaun Gallagher, Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza, Inês Hipólito 6. The Brain as Cultural Artifact: Concepts, Actions, and Experiences Within the Human Affective Niche Maria Gendron, Batja Mesquita, Lisa Feldman Barrett
7. Cultural Priming Effects and the Human Brain Shihui Han, Georg Northoff
8. Culture, Self, and Agency: An Ecosocial View Laurence J. Kirmayer, Ana Gómez-Carrillo, Timothé Langlois-Thérien, Maxwell J. D. Ramstead and Ian Gold
9. Neuroanthropological Perspectives on Culture, Mind, and Brain Daniel H. Lende, Greg Downey 10. The Neural Mechanisms Underlying Social Norms: Norm Detection, Punishment, and Compliance Yan Mu, Michele J. Gelfand
11. Ritual and Religion as Social Technologies of Cooperation Christopher Kavanagh, Jonathan Jong, Harvey Whitehouse
Part II. Applications
12. The Cultural Brain as Historical Artifact Rob Boddice
13. Experience-Dependent Plasticity in the Hippocampus Greg L. West, Véronique D. Bohbot
14. Liminal Brains in Uncertain Futures: Critical Neuroscience and the Cultural Contexts of Neuroeducation Suparna Choudhury and Joshua Berson
15. The Reward of Musical Emotions and Expectations Benjamin P. Gold and Robert J. Zatorre 16. Literary Analysis and Weak Theories Omri Moses
17. Capturing Context is Not Enough: the Embodied Impact of Story and Emotion in Ethnographic Film Robert Lemelson and Anne Tucker
18. Social Neuroscience in Global Mental Health: Case Study on Stigma Reduction in Nepal Brandon Kohrt
19. Cities, Psychosis, and Social Defeat Firrhaana Sayanvala, Lisa Bornstein, Suparna Choudhury, Jai Shah, Daniel Weinstock, and Ian Gold
20. Internet Sociality Moriah Stendel, Maxwell Ramstead, Samuel P. L. Veissière
21. Neurodiversity as a Conceptual Lens and Topic of Cross-Cultural Study M. Ariel Cascio
22. Epilogue: Interdisciplinarity in the Study of Culture, Mind, and Brain Laurence Kirmayer, Carol M. Worthman and Shinobu Kitayama
Index.

Subject Areas: Neurosciences [PSAN], Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology [JMM], Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography [JHMC]