Paul Mason: Slides on Neuroanthropology
Posted by gregdowney on January 12, 2008
Paul Mason has sent me PowerPoint slides on Neuroanthropology that draw upon a lot of the same resources that he cited in an earlier post I put up on his behalf. Paul’s in the field in Indonesia, and he writes in sometimes from internet cafes, but we should eventually have him as a regular contributor when he’s back with some regular Internet access. And then he can also tell us more, too, about his own research.
Paul includes a number of choice quotes, but I wanted to make sure that everyone got a chance to see his diagram of a systems-based approach to ‘fight-dancing’ in cultural, biological, and ecological context (in both Indonesia and Brazil). It’s a rich diagram, and I think that we, as neuroanthropologist, will need to do a lot of complex visualization in order to make our points to a broad audience. Paul must get all the credit for this one.
In the meantime, i don’t yet have a complete bibliography on this material, so we’ll have to get in touch with Paul if anyone really wants to get the sources he’s using. He sent this about a month ago, and I was not clear on how to post PowerPoint slides, but I think it’s pretty straightforward. We’ll see….neuroanthropology.ppt
Sylvain Rouanet said
Really interesting powerpoint and quotes.
Could you please, add a bibliography of the authours which are mentionned in this Powerpoint ?
gregdowney said
Sylvain –
I’ll try to get you that. As I’ve mentioned, Paul is in Indonesia doing his fieldwork, so he’s a bit hard to reach. That’s why I’m posting stuff for him. Look back in a little while, and I’ll try to get one for all the readers. There’s some great stuff in there that Paul’s pulled together.
best, greg
Paul Mason said
I apologise for the sketchiness, but For those people interested some interesting references can be found here:
M.J. The Split-Brain and the Culture-Cognition Paradox.
Paredes, J.A. & Hepburn,
Current Anthropology 17, (1976) 320 -322.
More on Split-Brain Research and Anthropology
Colin Martindale, J. Anthony Paredes, Marcus J. Hepburn
Current Anthropology, Vol. 17, No. 4 (Dec., 1976), pp. 738-742
More on Split-Brain Research and Anthropology
Warren D. TenHouten, Charles D. Kaplan, J. Anthony Paredes, Marcus J. Hepburn
Current Anthropology, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Jun., 1977), pp. 344-350
Other papers co-authored by Professor TenHouten may be found in Intern. J. Neuroscience 8:1-6 (1977), 28:125-146 (1985), 30:255-260 (1986); J. Alt. States of Consc. 4(2):129-140 (1978-79); Cur. Anthro. 17(3):503-506 (1976), 18(2):344-346 (1977)
The Spectrum of Ritual: A Biogenetic Structural Analysis
E. d’Aquili, C. D. Laughlin Jr., J. McManus
New York: Columbia University Press, 1979
Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens: How Synaesthetes Color their world
Patricia Lynne Duffy
Owl Books 2002
And a couple of links:
http://www.decitre.fr/livres/Paul-Broca.aspx/9782711791385
http://poynter.indiana.edu/publications/m-couser.pdf
And not part of my references, but just a funky little article I found:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dujs/1999S/11_Debate.pdf
Paul Mason said
For citations: The Brain, Culture and Environment (pictured above) diagram has just been published on page 109 of the following article.
Mason, P.H. (2007) Alam, Otak dan Kebudayaan: Perkembangan Baru Tentang Pengetahuan Musik dan Tari. Gema Seni: Jurnal Komunikasi, Informasi, dan Dokumentasi Seni, Vol 2, no. 4, pp. 108-119.