UID:
almafu_9959239303002883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xv, 304 pages :)
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illustrations ;
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780262315678
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026231567X
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9780262528924
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0262528924
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9780262315661
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0262315661
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- I Cognition and Material Culture -- 2 Rethinking the Archaeology of Mind -- 3 The Material-Engagement Approach: A Summary of the Argument -- II Outline of a Theory of Material Engagement -- 4 The Extended Mind -- 5 The Enactive Sign -- 6 Material Agency -- III Marking the Mental: Where Brain, Body, and Culture Conflate -- 7 Knapping Intentions and the Handmade Mind -- 8 Thoughtful Marks, Lines, and Signs -- 9 Becoming One with the Clay -- 10 Epilogue: How Do Things Shape the Mind? -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780262019194
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0262019191
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781299746138
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1299746136
Sprache:
Englisch
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