Dimensions
172 x 247 x 62mm
Does the way we think about our minds matter? Our judgements about what counts as thought are so intimate that we may not even realize that we make them. But we do dash; and the way we make them has consequences for our sense of the real.
The Mind and Spirit project (presented in this volume) finds that the way people think about thinking, shapes the way they experience (what they take to be) gods and spirits
Authors are a team of anthropologists and psychologists who worked together for two years across sites in the United States, Ghana, Thailand, China, and Vanuatu
Argues that there are cultural differences in the way social worlds represent usquo;the mind squo; idash; we call these local theories of mind fdash; and that these differences affect whether and how people, for instance, hear the voices of the dead or feel the presence of God
Discusses how the ways people think about thought and interiority can alter human sensory experience itself
