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Connections Stephen Reyna (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany)

Connections By Stephen Reyna (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany)

Summary

This groundbreaking work rethinks the relationship between psychology, cognitive neuroscience and anthropology and offers a new way of understanding the human condition.

Connections Summary

Connections: Brain, Mind and Culture in a Social Anthropology by Stephen Reyna (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany)

Have you ever wondered how the internal space of our brain connects with the external space of society? Drawing on hermeneutics and neuroscience Stephen Reyna develops an anthropological theory that explains the relationship between the biological and the cultural.
Recent popular interest in the brain is evident, and now social anthropologists are starting to consider connections between science and anthropology. Reyna is an anthropologist prepared to tackle big and difficult questions. This accessibly written book will cause quite a stir in anthropology, and will appeal to those interested in the mysteries of the brain.

Connections Reviews

'The bold attempt to map out this territory and give tools to conceptualise the dynamics of it [is] likely to attract attention.' - Andreas Roepstorff, University of Aarhus

About Stephen Reyna (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany)

Stephen P. Reyna is Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Hampshire, USA and a Visiting Senior Research Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations, Preface, List of Abbreviations, 1. Introduction, Part I: Bungled Connections, 2. Conjectural hermeneutics and 'insurmountable dualism', 3. Confronting the 'insurmountable', Part II: The Connector, 4. Neurohermeneutics, 5. A neurohermeneutic theory of culture, Part III: Coda, 6. What neurohermeneutics is not and is: is not a biological uber-determinism; is a knotty causation, 7. A Boasian social anthropology, Notes, References, Index

Additional information

NPB9780415271554
9780415271554
041527155X
Connections: Brain, Mind and Culture in a Social Anthropology by Stephen Reyna (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany)
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Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
20020228
234
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