Culture Mind and Brain

Recent neuroscience research makes it clear that human biology is cultural biology - we develop and live our lives in socially constructed worlds that vary widely in their structure values and institutions. This integrative volume brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from the human social and biological sciences to explore culture mind and brain interactions and their impact on personal and societal issues. Contributors provide a fresh look at emerging concepts models and applications of the co-constitution of culture mind and brain. Chapters survey the latest theoretical and methodological insights alongside the challenges in this area and describe how these new ideas are being applied in the sciences humanities arts mental health and everyday life. Readers will gain new appreciation of the ways in which our unique biology and cultural diversity shape behavior and experience and our ongoing adaptation to a constantly changing world.