The foundations of neuroanthropology.

Dias Dias

doi:10.3389/neuro.18.005.2010

Abstract

The foundations of neuroanthropology.

Highlights

The new horizons that these studies revealed allow for neuroscientific approaches to topics that once were conceived to be beyond the scope of a naturalistic framework, because they remained subordinated to contingent dimensions of the cultural environment
From the University of Melbourne) and proposes to be “the study of the experiential and neurobiological aspects of cultural activity”(Dominguez Duque et al, 2009, p. 3). Considered within this perspective, it seems compelling to assume that we are moving into the era of neuroanthropology, where the tradition of studies of culturally-dependent phenomena meets the tradition of studying brain mechanisms to consolidate a new epistemological field.,the thesis that this paper endorses is that the consolidation of neuroanthropology as a new and legitimate epistemological tradition will require significant new efforts
Many anthropologists conduct research within natural science frameworks, such as social and evolutionary neuroscience, and up to this point there was no clear reason to consider that these works represent new epistemological traditions, since these studies are all committed to the questions, methods, and theories that are dear to the natural sciences

Summary

Introduction

The new horizons that these studies revealed allow for neuroscientific approaches to topics that once were conceived to be beyond the scope of a naturalistic framework, because they remained subordinated to contingent dimensions of the cultural environment (e.g., embodiment; Campbell and Garcia, 2009). Many anthropologists conduct research within natural science frameworks, such as social and evolutionary neuroscience, and up to this point there was no clear reason to consider that these works represent new epistemological traditions, since these studies are all committed to the questions, methods, and theories that are dear to the natural sciences.

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