书目名称 | Evolutionary Perspectives on Imaginative Culture | 编辑 | Joseph Carroll,Mathias Clasen,Emelie Jonsson | 视频video | | 概述 | Multidisciplinary overview of the emergent field of imaginative culture.Noted experts advance understanding of the evolution of shared mental life.Extends concepts of social psychology, personality ps | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .This pioneering volume offers an expansive introduction to the relatively new field of evolutionary studies in imaginative culture. Contributors from psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, and the humanities probe the evolved human imagination and its artefacts. The book forcefully demonstrates that imagination is part of human nature. Contributors explore imaginative culture in seven main areas:.Imagination: Evolution, Mechanisms and Functions.Myth and Religion.Aesthetic Theory.Music.Visual and Plastic Arts.Video Games and Films.Oral Narratives and Literature.Evolutionary Perspectives on Imaginative Culture. widens the scope of evolutionary cultural theory to include much of what “culture” means in common usage. The contributors aim to convince scholars in both the humanities and the evolutionary human sciences that biology and imaginative culture are intimately intertwined. The contributors illuminate this broad theoretical argument with comprehensive insights into religion, ideology, personal identity, and many particular works of art, music, literature, film, and digital media..The chapters “Imagination, the Brain’s Default Mode Network, and Imaginative Verbal Artifacts” and | 出版日期 | Book 2020 | 关键词 | imaginative culture; imagination; culture; culture theory; cultural evolution; cultural transmission; huma | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46190-4 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-46192-8 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-46190-4 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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