The difference between neuroanthropology and cultural neuroscience with regard to neuroimaging is consistent with their conceptual and disciplinary roots in cultural anthropology and cultural psychology respectively. Cultural psychology is indeed cultural neuroscience’s “parent discipline” (Denkhaus and Bös 2012)—but in a manner that involves little more than replacing the “mind” of the psy by the “brain” of the neuro.
Cover of the book.
Richard A. Shweder is a cultural anthropologist and the Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Profes...
Inspired by the homonymous book by Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega, this timespace presents the authors' genealogy of the cerebral subject and the influence of the neurological discourse in human sciences, mental health and culture.