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Cultural Guidance in the Development of the Human Mind
Aaro Toomela
ISBN: 1-56750-572-4
ISBN-13: 978-1-56750-572-6
256 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 3/30/2003
List Price: $85.00 (UK Sterling Price: £58.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
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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. This volume may also be of interest to anthropologists, philosophy scholars, and semioticians.

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
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
About the Author: AARO TOOMELA is Visiting Professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Tartu in Estonia.
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