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Book Description
Psychology and Cognitive Archaeology demonstrates the potential of using cognitive archaeology framing to explore key issues in contemporary psychology and other behavioral sciences.
This edited volume features psychologists exploring archaeological data concerning specific themes such as: the use of tools, our child-rearing practices, our expressions of gender and sexuality, our sleep patterns, the nature of warfare, cultural practices, and the origins of religion. Other chapters touch on cognitive archaeological methods, the history of evolutionary approaches in psychology, and relevant philosophical considerations to further illustrate the interdisciplinary potential between archaeology and psychology. As a complementary counterpoint, the book also includes an archaeologist’s perspective on these same topical matters, as well as robust introductory and concluding thoughts by the editors.
This book will be an illuminating read for students and scholars of psychology (particularly theoretical, social, cognitive, and evolutionary psychology), as well as philosophy, archaeology, and anthropology.
Table of Contents
Foreword: Minding Matter
Lambros Malafouris
Acknowledgements
Contributors
1. Introduction: The Utility of Prehistory for Psychology
Matt J. Rossano and Tracy B. Henley
2. Situating the Archaeology in Cognitive Archaeology
Thomas Wynn and Frederick L. Coolidge
3. Psychology and Evolution: A Checkered History
Michael C. Corballis
4. Wild Selves:　On the Deeply Historical, Contextual Emergence of Self-Sustaining Systems
J. Scott Jordan
5. The Missing Mind: Contrasting Civilization with Non-Civilization Development and Functioning
Darcia Narvaez and Mary S. Tarsha
6. The Laughing Pregnant Grandmother and the Relevance of Archaeological Findings for Cultural Psychology
Jaan Valsiner
7. Sexuality and Gender in　Prehistory
Maryanne L. Fisher, Rebecca Burch, Rosemarie Sokol-Chang, T. Joel Wade and David Widman
8. Cognition Demonstrated by Artifacts: Tool-use Expertise and Tool-use Learning
Blandine Bril
9. Evidence, Inference, and the Puzzle of Ancestral Warfare
Anthony C. Lopez
10. The Advent of Religion
Lee A. Kirkpatrick and Matt J. Rossano
11. A Prehistory of Sleep: Understanding the Roots of Modern Sleep Disorders
Valerie E. Stone
12. Psychology and Antiquity: A Prehistorian’s Perspective
Paul Pettitt
Afterword: On Intersecting Psychology and Cognitive Archaeology
Tracy B. Henley and Matt J. Rossano
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