From Neural Synapses to Culture-Historical Boundaries
An Archaeological Comment on the Plastic Mind
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12822750 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mette Løvschal (0000-0002-3084-0524, Aarhus University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 415-434 |
| Publication date | 2014-11-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Cognition and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1567-7095 • E-ISSN: 1568-5373 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15685373-12342135 |
| OpenAlex | W1969001542 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 46 |
This paper contributes with a study of how something that is initially introduced as a ‘technology of spatial distribution’ develops into a ‘technology of the mind’. Boundaries are a phenomenon deeply rooted in social perception and cognitive categorization, which also involves material processes that can sometimes be studied in an archaeological record. In later prehistory, the physical instantiation of this technology offered a solution to a wide range of economic and social problems, posed by an increasingly filled-in and more permanently settled landscape. Important aspects of its initial conceptual and cultural incorporation lasted more than a millennium. However, once this technology attached conceptually as well as culturally, it entailed a quantitative acceleration and became part of a long-term development, the social and juridical consequences of which can be traced far up in historical times. This case is used to discuss the importance of unfolding both the plastic aspects of human cognition and the slow, protracted and long-term aspects involved in cultural changes
Archaeological record · Archaeology · Categorization · Cognition · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Metaphysics · Perception · Phenomenon · Philosophy of mind · Prehistory · Sociology · Action Observation and Synchronization · Ancient Near East History · Anthropology · History · Language and cultural evolution · Philosophy · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2022 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |