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Social Brain, Distributed Mind
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Description
This volume brings together two powerful approaches - the social brain hypothesis and the concept of the distributed mind. The volume compares perspectives on these two approaches from a range of disciplines, including archaeology, psychology, philosophy, sociology and the cognitive and evolutionary sciences.
A particular focus is on the role that material culture plays as a scaffold for distributed cognition, and how almost three million years of artefact and tool uses provides the data for tracing key changes in areas such as language, technology, kinship, music, social networks and the politics of local, everyday interaction in small-world societies. A second focus is on how, during the course of hominin evolution, increasingly large spatially distributed communities created stresses that threatened social cohesion.
This volume offers the possibility of new insights into the evolution of human cognition and social lives that will further our understanding of the relationship between mind and world.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
550
Release Date:
2010-06-25
Publication Date:
2011-07-28
Publisher:
BRITISH ACADEMY
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0197264522
ISBN13:
9780197264522
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Weight:
983 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
34 cm
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