How things shape the mind : a theory of material engagement / Lambros Malafouris ; foreword by Colin Renfrew.
2013
QP360.6 .M35 2013eb
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Title
How things shape the mind : a theory of material engagement / Lambros Malafouris ; foreword by Colin Renfrew.
Author
Malafouris, Lambros.
ISBN
9781461935674 (electronic bk.)
1461935679 (electronic bk.)
0262315661 (electronic bk.)
9780262315661 (electronic bk.)
9780262019194
0262019191
9780262528924
9780262315654
0262528924
1461935679 (electronic bk.)
0262315661 (electronic bk.)
9780262315661 (electronic bk.)
9780262019194
0262019191
9780262528924
9780262315654
0262528924
Publication Details
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 304 pages)
Item Number
ebc3339639
Call Number
QP360.6 .M35 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
612.8
Summary
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.
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