Human Cultures through the Scientific Lens
Essays in Evolutionary Cognitive Anthropology
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ScholarLedLanguage
EnglishAbstract
"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 E. O. Wilson’s concept of ‘consilience’.
Human Cultures through the Scientific Lens spans a wide range of topics, from an examination of ritual behaviour, integrating neuro-science, ethology and anthropology to explain why humans engage in ritual actions (both cultural and individual), to the motivation of conflicts between groups. As such, the collection gives readers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the applications of an evolutionary paradigm in the social sciences.
This volume will be a useful resource for scholars and students in the social sciences (particularly psychology, anthropology, evolutionary biology and the political sciences), as well as a general readership interested in the social sciences. "
Keywords
anthropology; ethology; economics; evolutionary biology; experimental psychology; history; human evolution; neuroscience; political science; psychology; ritual; social science;DOI
10.11647/OBP.0257ISBN
9781800642065, 9781800642072, 9781800642096, 9781800642102, 9781800642119, 9781800642089Publisher
Open Book PublishersPublisher website
https://www.openbookpublishers.com/Publication date and place
2021Classification
Sociology and anthropology
Anthropology
Social and cultural anthropology
Life sciences: general issues