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  • Artifact Classification

    A Conceptual and Methodological Approach

    de Dwight W Read ...
    Archaeologists have been developing artifact typologies to understand cultural categories for as long as the discipline has existed. Dwight Read examines these attempts to systematize the cultural domains in premodern societies through a historical study of pottery typologies. He then offers a methodology for producing classifications that are both salient to the cultural groups that produced them ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • How Culture Makes Us Human

    Primate Social Evolution and the Formation of Human Societies

    de Dwight W Read ...
    Series series Key Questions in Anthropology
    What separates modern humans from our primate cousins—are we a mere blink in the march of evolution, or does human culture represent the definitive evolutionary turn? Dwight Read explores the dilemma in this engaging, thought-provoking book, taking readers through an evolutionary odyssey from our primate beginnings through the development of culture and social organization. He assesses the two ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

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  • Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology

    de Robert C. Richardson ...
    Series series Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
    A philosopher subjects the claims of evolutionary psychology to the evidential and methodological requirements of evolutionary biology, concluding that evolutionary psychology's explanations amount to speculation disguised as results.Human beings, like other organisms, are the products of evolution. Like other organisms, we exhibit traits that are the product of natural selection. Our ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • How Things Shape the Mind

    A Theory of Material Engagement

    de Lambros Malafouris ...
    An account of the different ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the human body, from prehistory to the present.An increasingly influential school of thought in cognitive science views the mind as embodied, extended, and distributed rather than brain-bound or “all in the head.” This shift in perspective raises important questions about the relationship between cognition and ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • In Search of Pedagogy Volume I

    The Selected Works of Jerome Bruner, 1957-1978

    de Jerome S. Bruner ...
    Series series World Library of Educationalists
    Jerome Bruner is one of the best-known and most influential psychologists of the twentieth century. His theories about cognitive development dominate psychology around the world today, but it is in the field of education where his influence has been especially felt.In this two volume set, Bruner has selected and assembled his most important writings about education. Volume I spans the twenty years ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

  • Incest

    Origins of the Taboo

    de Jonathan H. Turner, Alexandra Maryanski ...
    Throughout history humans have been fascinated with incest. Stories, fables, literature, philosophers, church officials, and scientists have explored this mysterious topic. The taboo is critical to human survival, as incest threatens the species and patterns of human social organization. Drawing upon the rich legacy of theory, empirical data, and speculation about the origins of the incest taboo, ... Leer más

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  • From Signal to Symbol

    The Evolution of Language

    de Ronald Planer, Kim Sterelny ...
    Series series Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
    A novel account of the evolution of language and the cognitive capacities on which language depends.In From Signal to Symbol, Ronald Planer and Kim Sterelny propose a novel theory of language: that modern language is the product of a long series of increasingly rich protolanguages evolving over the last two million years. Arguing that language and cognition coevolved, they give a central role to ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • What is an Animal?

    Edición de Tim Ingold ...
    Series series One World Archaeology
    This book offers a unique interdisciplinary challenge to assumptions about animals and animality deeply embedded in our own ways of thought, and at the same time exposes highly sensitive and largely unexplored aspects of the understanding of our common humanity. ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things

    What Categories Reveal about the Mind

    de George Lakoff ...
    A critique of the assumptions the mind makes, of how humans tend to categorize objects and ideas, and of the implications of these modes of thought." Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things presents some of the most stimulating ideas on mind and meaning that I have ever read. It . . . has far-reaching consequences and is sure to rattle the foundations of thinking and research in the cognitive sciences. ... Leer más

    $18.79 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Secret of Our Success

    How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter

    de Joseph Henrich ...
    How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosperHumans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that ... Leer más

    $15.09 USD

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  • Language, Cognition, and Human Nature

    Selected Articles

    de Steven Pinker ...
    Language, Cognition, and Human Nature collects together for the first time much of Steven Pinker's most influential scholarly work on language and cognition. Pinker's seminal research explores the workings of language and its connections to cognition, perception, social relationships, child development, human evolution, and theories of human nature. This eclectic collection spans Pinker's thirty ... Leer más

    $21.89 USD

  • Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved

    How Morality Evolved

    de Frans de Waal ...
    Series series Princeton Science Library
    "It's the animal in us," we often hear when we've been bad. But why not when we're good? Primates and Philosophers tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits: morality.In this provocative book, primatologist Frans de Waal argues that modern-day evolutionary biology takes far too dim a view of the natural world, emphasizing our "selfish" ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD