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Cultural Guidance in the Development of the Human Mind
Aaro Toomela
Book Code: AB5724
ISBN: 1-56750-572-4
ISBN-13: 978-1-56750-572-6
256 pages, figures, tables
Ablex Publishing
Publication: 3/30/2003
List Price: $85.00 (UK Sterling Price: £47.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Paperback
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • This work provides compelling support for the notion that the human mind is intricately linked to culture....Recommended. Graduate students and faculty.
    —Choice     October 2003
Description: This volume is unique in integrating different domains of psychology, at both theoretical and empirical levels of analysis, in order to understand the development of the human mind. Perspectives include comparative, cultural, and developmental psychology, in addition to neuropsychology. Contributors in this edited collection emphasize both the collective nature of human cognition and the impossibility of separating individuals from their sociocultural environments. They also explain how participation in culture leads to radical changes in an individual's psychological makeup. Major topics include:
  • Human Development from the Perspective of Comparative Psychology
  • Culture in the Developing or Regressing Brain
  • Cultural Perspective on the Human Development
  • The Role of Culture in Child Development
    This volume may also be of interest to anthropologists, philosophy scholars, and semioticians.
    • Table of Contents:
    • Introduction: Culture as an Explanation of the Human Mind
    • Human Development from the Perspective of Comparative Psychology
    • Would Humans Without Language Be Apes? Jacques Vauclair
    • Continuities Between Great Ape and Human Behaviors by Kathleen R. Gibson
    • Assumptions and Knowledge Construction: What Can Science Learn from Primate Languages and Cultures? by Jaan Valsiner
    • Culture in the Developing or Regressing Brain
    • Culture in Our Brains: Cross-Cultural Differences in the Brain-Behavior Relationships by Alfredo Ardila
    • Art and Brain Evolution by Tabassum Ahmed and Bruce L. Miller
    • Cultural Perspective on the Human Development
    • Origins of Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences in Human Behaviour: An Ecocultural Perspective by John Berry
    • Semiotics of Culture in Scientific and Carnivalistic Guises: Michail Bakhtin and Yuri Lotman by Ivana Markova
    • The Role of Culture in Child Development
    • Making Sense in a World of Symbols by Katherine Nelson
    • Development of Symbol Meaning and the Emergence of the Semiotically Mediated Mind by Aaro Toomela
    • Constructing Knowledge Beyond Senses: Worlds Too Big and Small to See by Eve Kikas
    • Afterwords: Animals, Brain, Culture, and Children--Emerging Picture from Complementary Perspectives by Aaro Toomela
    • Bibliography
    • Index
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