C Salazar
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 18609 |
|---|---|
| NOME | C Salazar |
| PRENOMES | C |
| SOBRENOME | Salazar |
| ASSINATURA | SALAZAR C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Universitat de Lleida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8476-9620 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Human Alterity
Plural histories and relative cultures
Ethnography from an Evolutionary Point of View
The aim of this paper is to explore the possible collaboration between the cognitive and evolutionary human sciences and ethnography. My purpose is to show that certain kinds of behaviour and attitudes that can be observed by means of the ethnographic method can also be properly explained from an evolutionary perspective. I will explore the plausibility of an evolutionary point of view on ethnographic material by means of a case study: the analys…
Individuo, persona y parentesco en Europa
Individuo, persona y parentesco en EuropaEnric Porqueres i Gené. 2021 (2015).Barcelona: Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona. Traducció al castellà per Joan Bestard Camps de: Individu, Personne et parenté en Europe. Paris: Éditions de la Maison de Sciences de l’Homme.ISBN 978-84-9168-641-5
On the qualitative nature of conscious states
The point of departure of this paper is Penrose's definition of conscious action as that in which stimulus and response are linked by a non-algorithmic relationship, which Penrose defines as 'understanding'. My purpose is to explore the nature of this understanding by means of a two-step process. The first step is provided by Tononi's Integrated Information Theory of consciousness. This theory provides us with a quantitative measure of conscious …
The cross-cultural study of mind and behaviour
Nobody doubts that culture plays a decisive role in understanding human forms of life. But it is unclear how this decisive role should be integrated into a comprehensive explanatory model of human behaviour that brings together naturalistic and social-scientific perspectives. Cultural difference, cultural learning, cultural determination do not mix well with the factors that are normally given full explanatory value in the more naturalistic appro…
Human Kinship and the Reproduction of Sameness
Nobody doubts that human kinship has something to do with biology and reproduction and, at the same time, biology and reproduction are clearly insufficient to explain it. The unexplained part of human kinship by the biology of human reproduction is what anthropologists call ‘social’ kinship. Whereas the biology of human kinship does not seem to differ in any significant way from that of any sexually reproducing species, it is unclear how that soc…
Formal Model for the Cultural Evolutionary Dynamics of Counterintuitive Cultural Messages
In this article I present a formal model for the cultural evolution of counterintuitive cultural messages, specifically, religious ideas. This model tries to account for the reproduction of counterintuitive religious ideas by introducing a new parameter: the means of cultural communication by which those ideas are transmitted. Means of cultural communication can be classified alongside a continuum that goes from the cognitively optimal to the cog…
The Origins of Divergent and Oscillating Modes of Religiosity
In his 1995 ethnographyInside The Cult, Harvey Whitehouse argued that theorists have not been able to construct a satisfactory picture of religious behavior because they overlook "the way in which religion is handled cognitively" (1995, 194-220). In this essay, we will argue that, although Whitehouse's cognitive theory of "modes of religiosity" helps to explain many of the features and underlying dynamics of divergent ways of being religious, it …
Religion Explained? The Cognitive Science of Religion after Twenty-Five Years
The Cognitive Science of Religion
This book is meant to be used as a teaching resource, the editors caution in the introduction, it is not a work of original scholarship. Taking into account that the academic study of religion is ‘
Philosophical Foundations of the Cognitive Science of Religion
Robert N. McCauley is one of the most prominent and distinguished representatives of the Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR). Philosophical Foundations is not exactly a new book, for it is a collec
Can Science Explain Religion? The Cognitive Science Debate
Can Science Explain Religion? The Cognitive Science Debate." Journal of Contemporary Religion, 33(2), pp. 356–357
Introducing a Biocultural Perspective
Phantom Limbs, Extended Minds and the Decline of Religiosity
The purpose of this paper is to advance a hypothesis that might explain the decline of religious belief and practice among the so-called WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic) populations. The main point of this paper is to postulate a causal relationship between two variables that appear to be significantly correlated: on one hand, the decline of religious belief and practice that has been observed in those populations du…
The Complexity of Popular Religiosity
Popular religiosity manifests itself alongside a heterogeneous continuum of beliefs, behaviours, modes of thinking and modes of living that flows between two poles: the experiential pole and the normative pole. A central theme in this paper will be that all forms of religiosity originate in a combination of innate predispositions and cultural upbringing; hence human religious experience needs to be approached by combining both cognitive and symbo…
The Roots of Religion
What are the origins of religious belief? Why is there any religion at all? What is the relationship between religion and human nature? These are the traditional big issues in the study of religion
Religious Symbolism and the Human Mind
The purpose of this paper is to assess Durkheim’s approach to religion and the validity of the time-honoured principle of the social determination of mental representations. The thesis to be defended is that Durkheim was essentially right in understanding religious ritual as a symbolic language. But he was wrong both in his social deterministic theory of mental representations and in his definition of religion as an exclusively social phenomenon.…
Understanding Belief
The purpose of this paper is to explore the question of religious belief by bringing in some qualitative evidence about the meaning of religious behaviors and ideas. Whereas mainstream cognitive approaches to the study of belief have traditionally focused their attention on the memorability of religious ideas, the problem of meaning has been somehow left unexamined. New approaches have emphasized the role of the so-called “Credibility-Enhancing D…
El cuerpo (re) productivo. Interés económico y altruismo social en las experiencias de un grupo de mujeres donantes de óvulos
En nuestra investigación sobre un grupo de donantes de óvulos en una clínica privada\n\t\t\t\t de Barcelona, nos dimos cuenta que la donación de óvulos no puede ser abordada como\n\t\t\t\t un acto con un significado único, sino más bien como un proceso en el que diferentes\n\t\t\t\t y a veces contradictorios significados adquieren relevancia. En un primer momento de\n\t\t\t\t su proceso como donantes, la mayoría de estas mujeres destaca el caráct…
The making of an imagined community
The purpose of this article is to discuss the concept of community as a methodological tool in the absence of a face-to-face interaction context. Our perspective emphasizes the constitutive role of the researcher and his or her methods in creating communities in any kind of social research. In our case study of research that we conducted in a private medical centre in Barcelona, we show how Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) users were 'ima…
Anthropology and the Cognitive Science of Religion
Recent cognitive and evolutionary approaches to the study of religion have been seen by many as a naturalistic alternative to conventional anthropological interpretations. Whereas anthropologists have traditionally accounted for the existence of religion in terms of social and cultural determinants, cognitive scientists have emphasized the innate—that is pre-cultural—constraints placed by natural selection on the formation and acquisition of reli…
Prayer and symbolisation in an Irish Catholic community
The purpose of this paper is to present an analysis of prayer in the everyday life of an Irish Catholic community. Prayers are mental acts that need to be actualised following detailed instructions. This is so because prayers have to be “authentic”, which means that there has to be a correspondence between the act of praying and the mental state of believing. Due to the fact that mental states are by definition invisible, the argument of this pap…
Knowledge and discipline - knowledge as discipline
This article examines the recent history of sexual morality in rural Ireland. My thesis is that this history can be defined as a process of structural change in which a normative model has been replaced by a cognitive model. Both models give rise to disciplinary systems but, I argue, they differ from each other in their respective objects: whereas a normative model has the body as its immediate object of discipline, in the cognitive model body di…
On blood and its alternatives. An Irish history
A l'ouest de l'Irlande, adoption et placement d'enfants sont synonymes d'illegitimite. Personne ne serait assez insensible ou assez bete pour abandonner son enfant sans raison imperative et valable. La conception en dehors du mariage en est une. L'analyse conduite dans cet article est celle d'une situation qui ne se veut nullement theorique mais plutot contextuelle, Elle examine l'ideologie de la parente et de la famille et les valeurs sociales q…
The gift of motherhood
In this paper we analyse the ways in which egg donors from a private infertility clinic in Barcelona try to render their new experience meaningful. Donors are striving to see their action as a contribution to the creation of a particular kinship bond - motherhood in another woman - by means of the abrogation of a bond that also looks very much like kinship, which links them to the individuals that will be born thanks to their eggs. The specific m…
The making of an imagined community
The purpose of this article is to discuss the concept of community as a methodological tool in the absence of a face-to-face interaction context. Our perspective emphasizes the constitutive role of the researcher and his or her methods in creating communities in any kind of social research. In our case study of research that we conducted in a private medical centre in Barcelona, we show how Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) users were 'ima…
Religious Symbolism and the Human Mind
The purpose of this paper is to assess Durkheim’s approach to religion and the validity of the time-honoured principle of the social determination of mental representations. The thesis to be defended is that Durkheim was essentially right in understanding religious ritual as a symbolic language. But he was wrong both in his social deterministic theory of mental representations and in his definition of religion as an exclusively social phenomenon.…
Anthropology and the Cognitive Science of Religion
Recent cognitive and evolutionary approaches to the study of religion have been seen by many as a naturalistic alternative to conventional anthropological interpretations. Whereas anthropologists have traditionally accounted for the existence of religion in terms of social and cultural determinants, cognitive scientists have emphasized the innate—that is pre-cultural—constraints placed by natural selection on the formation and acquisition of reli…
Knowledge and discipline - knowledge as discipline
This article examines the recent history of sexual morality in rural Ireland. My thesis is that this history can be defined as a process of structural change in which a normative model has been replaced by a cognitive model. Both models give rise to disciplinary systems but, I argue, they differ from each other in their respective objects: whereas a normative model has the body as its immediate object of discipline, in the cognitive model body di…
Demographic growth and the "cultural factor" in ireland
The structure/event dichotomy has been a bone of contention in anthropology for many decades. The so‐called “synchronic paradigms” such as functionalism and structuralism saw “structure” (defined in various ways) as the object of anthropological analysis, whereas “events” were left to historians. Recent trends in anthropological thought are eager to dismiss the ahistoricity of traditional approaches as they attempt to include the diachronic persp…
From contract to status
From contract to status
Identities in Ireland
The troubles in Northern Ireland have been for a very long time a marker and a symbol of Irish national identity. Behind them there is a complex history of colonization and abuse that has divided the Northern Irish population and has given rise to one of the oldest ethnic conflicts in western Europe. This article seeks to integrate three different perspectives in its analysis. There is first the historical perspective, in which history is underst…
On blood and its alternatives. An Irish history
Demographic growth and the "cultural factor" in ireland
The structure/event dichotomy has been a bone of contention in anthropology for many decades. The so‐called “synchronic paradigms” such as functionalism and structuralism saw “structure” (defined in various ways) as the object of anthropological analysis, whereas “events” were left to historians. Recent trends in anthropological thought are eager to dismiss the ahistoricity of traditional approaches as they attempt to include the diachronic persp…
The gift of motherhood
In this paper we analyse the ways in which egg donors from a private infertility clinic in Barcelona try to render their new experience meaningful. Donors are striving to see their action as a contribution to the creation of a particular kinship bond - motherhood in another woman - by means of the abrogation of a bond that also looks very much like kinship, which links them to the individuals that will be born thanks to their eggs. The specific m…
On blood and its alternatives. An Irish history
A l'ouest de l'Irlande, adoption et placement d'enfants sont synonymes d'illegitimite. Personne ne serait assez insensible ou assez bete pour abandonner son enfant sans raison imperative et valable. La conception en dehors du mariage en est une. L'analyse conduite dans cet article est celle d'une situation qui ne se veut nullement theorique mais plutot contextuelle, Elle examine l'ideologie de la parente et de la famille et les valeurs sociales q…
Prayer and symbolisation in an Irish Catholic community
The purpose of this paper is to present an analysis of prayer in the everyday life of an Irish Catholic community. Prayers are mental acts that need to be actualised following detailed instructions. This is so because prayers have to be “authentic”, which means that there has to be a correspondence between the act of praying and the mental state of believing. Due to the fact that mental states are by definition invisible, the argument of this pap…
Knowledge and discipline - knowledge as discipline
This article examines the recent history of sexual morality in rural Ireland. My thesis is that this history can be defined as a process of structural change in which a normative model has been replaced by a cognitive model. Both models give rise to disciplinary systems but, I argue, they differ from each other in their respective objects: whereas a normative model has the body as its immediate object of discipline, in the cognitive model body di…
Anthropology and the Cognitive Science of Religion
Recent cognitive and evolutionary approaches to the study of religion have been seen by many as a naturalistic alternative to conventional anthropological interpretations. Whereas anthropologists have traditionally accounted for the existence of religion in terms of social and cultural determinants, cognitive scientists have emphasized the innate—that is pre-cultural—constraints placed by natural selection on the formation and acquisition of reli…
The making of an imagined community
The purpose of this article is to discuss the concept of community as a methodological tool in the absence of a face-to-face interaction context. Our perspective emphasizes the constitutive role of the researcher and his or her methods in creating communities in any kind of social research. In our case study of research that we conducted in a private medical centre in Barcelona, we show how Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) users were 'ima…
El cuerpo (re) productivo. Interés económico y altruismo social en las experiencias de un grupo de mujeres donantes de óvulos
En nuestra investigación sobre un grupo de donantes de óvulos en una clínica privada\n\t\t\t\t de Barcelona, nos dimos cuenta que la donación de óvulos no puede ser abordada como\n\t\t\t\t un acto con un significado único, sino más bien como un proceso en el que diferentes\n\t\t\t\t y a veces contradictorios significados adquieren relevancia. En un primer momento de\n\t\t\t\t su proceso como donantes, la mayoría de estas mujeres destaca el caráct…
Understanding Belief
The purpose of this paper is to explore the question of religious belief by bringing in some qualitative evidence about the meaning of religious behaviors and ideas. Whereas mainstream cognitive approaches to the study of belief have traditionally focused their attention on the memorability of religious ideas, the problem of meaning has been somehow left unexamined. New approaches have emphasized the role of the so-called “Credibility-Enhancing D…
The Roots of Religion
What are the origins of religious belief? Why is there any religion at all? What is the relationship between religion and human nature? These are the traditional big issues in the study of religion
Religious Symbolism and the Human Mind
The purpose of this paper is to assess Durkheim’s approach to religion and the validity of the time-honoured principle of the social determination of mental representations. The thesis to be defended is that Durkheim was essentially right in understanding religious ritual as a symbolic language. But he was wrong both in his social deterministic theory of mental representations and in his definition of religion as an exclusively social phenomenon.…
The Complexity of Popular Religiosity
Popular religiosity manifests itself alongside a heterogeneous continuum of beliefs, behaviours, modes of thinking and modes of living that flows between two poles: the experiential pole and the normative pole. A central theme in this paper will be that all forms of religiosity originate in a combination of innate predispositions and cultural upbringing; hence human religious experience needs to be approached by combining both cognitive and symbo…
Phantom Limbs, Extended Minds and the Decline of Religiosity
The purpose of this paper is to advance a hypothesis that might explain the decline of religious belief and practice among the so-called WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic) populations. The main point of this paper is to postulate a causal relationship between two variables that appear to be significantly correlated: on one hand, the decline of religious belief and practice that has been observed in those populations du…
Philosophical Foundations of the Cognitive Science of Religion
Robert N. McCauley is one of the most prominent and distinguished representatives of the Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR). Philosophical Foundations is not exactly a new book, for it is a collec
Can Science Explain Religion? The Cognitive Science Debate
Can Science Explain Religion? The Cognitive Science Debate." Journal of Contemporary Religion, 33(2), pp. 356–357
Introducing a Biocultural Perspective
Religion Explained? The Cognitive Science of Religion after Twenty-Five Years
The Cognitive Science of Religion
This book is meant to be used as a teaching resource, the editors caution in the introduction, it is not a work of original scholarship. Taking into account that the academic study of religion is ‘
Formal Model for the Cultural Evolutionary Dynamics of Counterintuitive Cultural Messages
In this article I present a formal model for the cultural evolution of counterintuitive cultural messages, specifically, religious ideas. This model tries to account for the reproduction of counterintuitive religious ideas by introducing a new parameter: the means of cultural communication by which those ideas are transmitted. Means of cultural communication can be classified alongside a continuum that goes from the cognitively optimal to the cog…
The Origins of Divergent and Oscillating Modes of Religiosity
In his 1995 ethnographyInside The Cult, Harvey Whitehouse argued that theorists have not been able to construct a satisfactory picture of religious behavior because they overlook "the way in which religion is handled cognitively" (1995, 194-220). In this essay, we will argue that, although Whitehouse's cognitive theory of "modes of religiosity" helps to explain many of the features and underlying dynamics of divergent ways of being religious, it …
Human Kinship and the Reproduction of Sameness
Nobody doubts that human kinship has something to do with biology and reproduction and, at the same time, biology and reproduction are clearly insufficient to explain it. The unexplained part of human kinship by the biology of human reproduction is what anthropologists call ‘social’ kinship. Whereas the biology of human kinship does not seem to differ in any significant way from that of any sexually reproducing species, it is unclear how that soc…
The cross-cultural study of mind and behaviour
Nobody doubts that culture plays a decisive role in understanding human forms of life. But it is unclear how this decisive role should be integrated into a comprehensive explanatory model of human behaviour that brings together naturalistic and social-scientific perspectives. Cultural difference, cultural learning, cultural determination do not mix well with the factors that are normally given full explanatory value in the more naturalistic appro…
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