Michael Tomasello, Duke University and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Humans are biologically adapted for cultural life in ways that other primates are not. Humans have unique motivations and cognitive skills for sharing emotions, experience, and collaborative actions (shared intentionality). These motivations and skills first emerge in human ontogeny at around one year […]

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Dorsa Amir, Boston College Department of Psychology The human behavioral repertoire is uniquely diverse, with an unmatched flexibility that has allowed our species to flourish in every ecology on the planet. Despite its importance, the roots of this behavioral diversity — and how it manifests across development and contexts — remain largely unexplored. I argue that […]
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MMAC is pleased to be hosting Elizabeth Fein to discuss her book Living on the Spectrum: Autism and Youth in Community (NYU Press, 2020), a two year, multi-sited ethnographic study of how young people on the autism spectrum negotiate the meanings of their contested condition in their everyday lives, in places where they live, learn, […] |
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Paul Smaldino, Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences, University of California, Merced Identity signals are common components of communication transmissions that inform receivers of the signaler’s membership (or non-membership) in a subset of individuals. Signals can be overt, broadcast to all possible receivers, or covert, encrypted so that only similar receivers are likely to perceive […]
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MMAC will not meet on 15 February in observance of Presidents’ Day. **(Please follow link to RSVP: https://forms.gle/vD8ewv98SwmCbJF7A)** ***If you are already on the permanent Zoom RSVP list please do not RSVP again. Dear All, Mind, Medicine, and Culture (MMAC) is pleased to be hosting Robert Lemelson. His presentation is entitled: “Person-Centered Interviewing and Visual […] |
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A BOOK CELEBRATION! The Department of Anthropology cordially invites you to come celebrate a new book by Dr. Diane C. Perlov, VP of Exhibits at the California Science Center UCLA MA Anthropology '79, UCLA PhD Anthropology '87 Driving the Samburu Bride Fieldwork among Cattle Keepers in Kenya Through Zoom Register by February 22, 2021 […] |
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