How things shape the mind : a theory of material engagement /

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 hea...

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Malafouris, Lambros
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]
©2013
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Zusammenfassung:
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 material culture, posing major challenges for philosophy, cognitive science, archaeology, and anthropology. In How Things Shape the Mind, Lambros Malafouris proposes a cross-disciplinary analytical framework for investigating the ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the human body. Using a variety of examples and case studies, he considers how those ways might have changed from earliest prehistory to the present. Malafouris's Material Engagement Theory definitively adds materiality--the world of things, artifacts, and material signs--into the cognitive equation. His account not only questions conventional intuitions about the boundaries and location of the human mind but also suggests that we rethink classical archaeological assumptions about human cognitive evolution.
Umfang:
1 online resource (xv, 304 pages :) illustrations ;
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780262315678
026231567X
9780262528924
0262528924
9780262315661
0262315661
Schlagworte:
Neuroanthropology.
Material culture.
Archaeology.
Cognition and culture.
Neuropsychology.
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