Culture, Mind, and Brain

Laurence J. Kirmayer is James McGill Professor and Director of the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University, where he conducts research on the place of culture in mental health and illness, medical and psychological anthropology, and the philosophy of psychiatry. Carol M. Worthman is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor at the Department of Anthropology at Emory University. She uses a biocultural approach in comparative interdisciplinary research on health and human development in Africa, Asia, and the USA. Shinobu Kitayama is Social Psychology Area Chair and Robert B. Zajonc Collegiate Professor of Psychology at University of Michigan, where he conducts research on the mutual constitution of mental processes and culture. Robert Lemelson is President of the Foundation for Psychocultural Research and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at UCLA. He has been conducting psychological and visual anthropological research in Indonesia yearly for the past 20 years. Constance A. Cummings is Project Director of the Foundation for Psychocultural Research, which advances interdisciplinary research on the intersection of brain, mind, and culture. She is co-editor of Formative Experiences (2010) and Re-Visioning Psychiatry (2015), both with Cambridge University Press.

• 1. Co-Constructing Culture, Mind and Brain Laurence Kirmayer, Carol Worthman, and Shinobu Kitayama; Part I. Dynamics of Culture, Mind, and Brain: Models and Evidence; 2. Culture, Mind, and Brain in Human Evolution: An Extended Evolutionary Perspective on Paleolithic Toolmaking as Embodied Practice Dietrich Stout; 3. Mutual Constitution of Culture and the Mind: Insights From Cultural Neuroscience Shinobu Kitayama, Qinggang Yu; 4. Being There: Foundations, Theory, Method Carol M. Worthman; 5. Culture in Mind – An Enactivist Account: Not Cognitive Penetration but Cultural Permeation Daniel D. Hutto, Shaun Gallagher, Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza, Inês Hipólito 6. The Brain as Cultural Artifact: Concepts, Actions, and Experiences Within the Human Affective Niche Maria Gendron, Batja Mesquita, Lisa Feldman Barrett; 7. Cultural Priming Effects and the Human Brain Shihui Han, Georg Northoff; 8. Culture, Self, and Agency: An Ecosocial View Laurence J. Kirmayer, Ana Gómez-Carrillo, Timothé Langlois-Thérien, Maxwell J. D. Ramstead and Ian Gold; 9. Neuroanthropological Perspectives on Culture, Mind, and Brain Daniel H. Lende, Greg Downey 10. The Neural Mechanisms Underlying Social Norms: Norm Detection, Punishment, and Compliance Yan Mu, Michele J. Gelfand; 11. Ritual and Religion as Social Technologies of Cooperation Christopher Kavanagh, Jonathan Jong, Harvey Whitehouse; Part II. Applications; 12. The Cultural Brain as Historical Artifact Rob Boddice; 13. Experience-Dependent Plasticity in the Hippocampus Greg L. West, Véronique D. Bohbot; 14. Liminal Brains in Uncertain Futures: Critical Neuroscience and the Cultural Contexts of Neuroeducation Suparna Choudhury and Joshua Berson; 15. The Reward of Musical Emotions and Expectations Benjamin P. Gold and Robert J. Zatorre 16. Literary Analysis and Weak Theories Omri Moses; 17. Capturing Context is Not Enough: the Embodied Impact of Story and Emotion in Ethnographic Film Robert Lemelson and Anne Tucker; 18. Social Neuroscience in Global Mental Health: Case Study on Stigma Reduction in Nepal Brandon Kohrt; 19. Cities, Psychosis, and Social Defeat Firrhaana Sayanvala, Lisa Bornstein, Suparna Choudhury, Jai Shah, Daniel Weinstock, and Ian Gold; 20. Internet Sociality Moriah Stendel, Maxwell Ramstead, Samuel P. L. Veissière; 21. Neurodiversity as a Conceptual Lens and Topic of Cross-Cultural Study M. Ariel Cascio; 22. Epilogue: Interdisciplinarity in the Study of Culture, Mind, and Brain Laurence Kirmayer, Carol M. Worthman and Shinobu Kitayama; Index.

'This is an extraordinary collection written by leaders in psychological anthropology, social psychology, and 'cultural neuroscience'. It presents state-of-the-art research dedicated to understanding the interaction of mind, brain, and culture.' Melvin Konner, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology, Emory University