ANTH 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hypersensitive, Animism, Prosocial Behavior
13 Feb 2017
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Invariant structures of human shared intentionality that give rise to culture and meaning in phylogeny and ontogeny. Children are motivated to engage in these kinds of collaborative activities for their own sake, not just for their contribution to individual goals. Had a role in how we came to evolve into larger societies. We use quotes because none of us are really sure what religion means. Nowadays we think of religion are compartmentalized sets of activities. E. g. , going to church on sunday, ramadan, etc. Theory of mind: how we cognize the opaque intentionality and goal-directed. How different kinds of memory are collectively constructed; through what kinds of actions. How different forms o social organization are conducive to the construction of collectively held beliefs. Agency: the capacity to act; the be an active gent with mental states, desires, needs, goals, etc. of free will. Very minimalist explanation of agency we are not addressing the problem.
