Structure, Communitas, and the Social Brain
One of the goals of the human sciences is to connect explanations of behavior at multiple levels, from neural circuits to patterns of cultural activity. In this essay, I explore one example of these connections through the work of anthropologist Victor Turner. Turner developed a distinctive analysis...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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Journal of cognition and culture
Année: 2025, Volume: 25, Numéro: 3/4, Pages: 298-320 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Communitas
B Victor Turner B medial prefrontal cortex B Social cognition |
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| Résumé: | One of the goals of the human sciences is to connect explanations of behavior at multiple levels, from neural circuits to patterns of cultural activity. In this essay, I explore one example of these connections through the work of anthropologist Victor Turner. Turner developed a distinctive analysis of social interactions that centers on the dynamic between “structure” and “anti-structure” or “communitas”, which revolve around the contrast between relationships governed by ingrained social roles and those in which humans face each other as creative, equal individuals. I link this contrast to two neuropsychological mechanisms in the socio-emotional network of the human brain that similarly mediate between rule-governed social habits and face-to-face joint attentional interactions. This connections between Turner’s concepts and neural systems suggests ways in which macroscopic aspects of culture can be rooted in neuropsychology. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5373 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Journal of cognition and culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685373-12340220 |
