Human Cultures through the Scientific Lens
Subtitle: essays in evolutionary cognitive Anthropology
By: Pascal Boyer
Contributors: Open Book Publishers
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781800642096; 9781800642102; 9781800642119; 9781800642089
Subjects: Anthropology; Cognition and culture; Ethnopsychology; Anthropologie; Cognition et culture; Ethnopsychologie
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Open Book Publishers website; viewed on 2020-07-12).
Table of contents: title: The Naturalness of (Many) Social Institutions: Evolved Cognition as their Foundation / Pascal Boyer and Michael Bang Petersen; title: Why Ritualized Behavior?: Precaution Systems and Action Parsing in Developmental, Pathological and Cultural Rituals / Pascal Boyer and Pierre Liénard; title: Safety, Threat, and Stress in Intergroup Relations: A Coalitional Index Model / Pascal Boyer, Rengin Firat and Florian van Leeuwen; title: Folk-Economic Beliefs: An Evolutionary Cognitive Model / Pascal Boyer and Michael Bang Petersen; title: 1. Anthropology, Useful and Scientific: An Introduction / Pascal Boyer; title: 2. Institutions and Human Nature / Pascal Boyer; title: The Naturalness of (Many) Social Institutions: Evolved Cognition as their Foundation / Pascal Boyer and Michael Bang Petersen; title: Why Ritualized Behavior? / Pascal Boyer; title: Why Ritualized Behavior?: Precaution Systems and Action Parsing in Developmental, Pathological and Cultural Rituals / Pascal Boyer and Pierre Liénard; title: 4. Social Groups and Adapted Minds / Pascal Boyer; title: Safety, Threat, and Stress in Intergroup Relations: A Coalitional Index Model / Pascal Boyer, Rengin Firat and Florian van Leeuwen; title: 5. How People Think about the Economy / Pascal Boyer; title: Folk-Economic Beliefs: An Evolutionary Cognitive Model / Pascal Boyer and Michael Bang Petersen; title: 6. Detecting Mental Disorder / Pascal Boyer; title: Intuitive Expectations and the Detection of Mental Disorder: A Cognitive Background to Folk-Psychiatries / Pascal Boyer; title: 7. The Ideal of Integrated Social Science / Pascal Boyer; title: Modes of Scholarship in the Study of Culture / Pascal Boyer; title: List of Tables and Illustrations.