Meredith Francesca Small

Gebundenes Buch

How We Think

The Hidden Life of Everyday Ideas

Beschreibung

A sweeping, thought-provoking exploration of how humans think about the world and themselves Humans are the product of millions of years of evolution as well as various forces of culture that influence how we think. Humans also spend much of their brain power on self-reflection. We want to understand ourselves, to decide if there is a universal "human nature" or if we are cultural beings that can think our way out of everything. Can we agree on who we are and what motivates our thoughts? What is the purpose of such an enormous brain? Does it guide us or restrict us? A sweeping, thought-provoking exploration about how humans, as a species and as individuals, think about the world and themselves, How We Think presents essays about research, questions the way humans use their minds, and considers how that information informs each of us about ourselves. This is a book for everyone--for those interested in anthropology and human behavior and the "big questions" about who we are. How We Think takes the anthropological view about the human thought process, a view that is both evolutionarily deep and widely cross-cultural, always focusing on what makes humans so different from each other, although we are also universally so much alike.

Autor

Meredith F. Small holds a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from the University of California, Davis, an M.A. in Biological Anthropology from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and an A.B. in anthropology from San Diego State University. She is Professor Emerita at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, where she taught anthropology for over 30 years and was named a Weiss Presidential Fellow for teaching excellence. Small is also a science journalist writing for various magazines, newspapers, and broadcast outlets, as well as the author of eight books, including Female Choices, What's Love Got to Do With It, Kids, The Culture of Our Discontent, Together: How the Human Need for Connection Forms and Shapes Families, as well as two books on Venetian history. She is best known for the internationally acclaimed book Our Babies Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent. Her popular work has twice been included in the Best Science and Nature Writing series from Houghton Mifflin, and in 2005, she was given the Anthropology in Media Award from the American Anthropological Association.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781606180600
• ISBN-10: 1606180606
• Artikelnr.: 74368621