Social brain, distributed mind

edited by Robin Dunbar, Clive Gamble, John Gowlett

To understand who we are and why we are, we need to understand both modern humans and the ancestral stages that brought us to this point. The core to that story has been the role of evolving cognition -the social brain - in mediating the changes in behaviour that we see in the archaeological record. 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.

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[目次]

  • FRAMING THE ISSUES: EVOLUTION OF THE SOCIAL BRAIN
  • 1. The Social Brain and its Distributed Mind
  • 2. Technologies of Separation and the Evolution of Social Extension
  • 3. Herto Brains and Minds: Behaviour of Early Homo Sapiens from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia
  • THE NATURE OF NETWORK: BONDS OF SOCIALITY
  • 4. Social Complexity and the Importance of Indirect Relationships: Social Networks in Primates
  • 5. Fission-Fusion Behaviour in Chimpanzees and Hunter-Gatherers
  • 6. Constraints on Social Networks
  • 7. Social Networks and Community in the Viking Age
  • EVOLVING BONDS OF SOCIALITY
  • 8. Deacon's Dilemma: the Problem of Pairbonding in Human Evolution
  • 9. The Evolution of Altruism via Social Addiction
  • 10. From Experiential-Based to Relational-Based forms of Social Organization: a Major Transition in the Evolution of Homo Sapiens
  • 11. Networks and the Evolution of Socio-Material Differentiation
  • THE REACH OF THE BRAIN: MODERN HUMANS AND DISTRIBUTED MINDS
  • 12. When Individuals Do Not Stop at the Skin
  • 13. Cliques, Coalitions, Comrades, and Colleagues: Sources of Cohesion in Groups
  • 14. Evolutionary Signalling Theory and Religion: Recent Advances and Future Directions
  • 15. Some Functions of Collective Forgetting
  • 16. Consciousness and Culture
  • TESTING THE PAST: ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE SOCIAL BRAIN IN PAST ACTION
  • 17. Firing up the Intellect
  • 18. Multi-Tasking and the Social Brain in Middle Pleistocene Africa
  • 19. The Archaeology of Group Size
  • 20. Fragmenting Hominins and the Presencing of Early Palaeolithic Social Worlds
  • 21. Small Worlds, Material Culture and Ancient Near Eastern Social Networks
  • 22. Brain, Mind and Material Culture in Evolutionary Perspective

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書名 Social brain, distributed mind
著作者等 Dunbar, R. I. M.
Gamble, Clive
Gowlett, John
Dunbar Robin
シリーズ名 Proceedings of the British Academy
出版元 Oxford University Press
刊行年月 2010
ページ数 xviii, 528 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 9780197264522
NCID BB0196906X
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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