The Debated Mind : Evolutionary Psychology versus Ethnography - Harvey Whitehouse

The Debated Mind

Evolutionary Psychology versus Ethnography

By: Harvey Whitehouse (Editor)

Paperback | 1 April 2001 | Edition Number 1

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In a further development of the nature-nurture debate, this collection of articles questions how the human mind influences the content and organization of culture. In the study of mental activity, can the effects of evolution and history be teased apart? Evolutionary psychologists argue that cultural transmission is constrained by our genetic inheritance. Few social and cultural anthropologists have found this argument to be relevant to their work and many would doubt its validity. This book uniquely pitches the arguments for innatism against ethnographic perspectives that call into question the theoretical foundations of orthodox evolutionary biology and cognitive science. Ultimately the aim of the debate is to create an original set of mutually compatible theories that will open up new areas for interdisciplinary research.
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'Whitehouse suggests that the exploration of cognition as self-organized and emergent is a potentially fruitful one for anthropology as well as psychology.' The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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