1. Co-Constructing Culture, Mind and Brain - Laurence Kirmayer, Carol Worthman, and Shinobu Kitayama;

Part I. Dynamics of Culture, Mind, and Brain: Models and Evidence;

2. Culture, Mind, and Brain in Human Evolution: An Extended Evolutionary Perspective on Paleolithic Toolmaking as Embodied
Practice - Dietrich Stout;

3. Mutual Constitution of Culture and the Mind: Insights From Cultural Neuroscience - Shinobu Kitayama, Qinggang Yu;

4. Being There: Foundations, Theory, Method - Carol M. Worthman;

5. Culture in Mind – An Enactivist Account: Not Cognitive Penetration but Cultural Permeation - Daniel D. Hutto, Shaun Gallagher, Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza, Inês Hipólito

6. The Brain as Cultural Artifact: Concepts, Actions, and Experiences Within the Human Affective Niche - Maria Gendron, Batja Mesquita, Lisa Feldman Barrett;

7. Cultural Priming Effects and the Human Brain - Shihui Han, Georg Northoff;

8. Culture, Self, and Agency: An Ecosocial View - Laurence J. Kirmayer, Ana Gómez-Carrillo, Timothé Langlois-Thérien, Maxwell J. D. Ramstead and Ian Gold;

9. Neuroanthropological Perspectives on Culture, Mind, and Brain - Daniel H. Lende, Greg Downey

10. The Neural Mechanisms Underlying Social Norms: Norm Detection, Punishment, and Compliance - Yan Mu, Michele J. Gelfand;

11. Ritual and Religion as Social Technologies of Cooperation - Christopher Kavanagh, Jonathan Jong, Harvey Whitehouse;

Part II. Applications;

12. The Cultural Brain as Historical Artifact - Rob Boddice;

13. Experience-Dependent Plasticity in the Hippocampus - Greg L. West, Véronique D. Bohbot;

14. Liminal Brains in Uncertain Futures: Critical Neuroscience and the Cultural Contexts of Neuroeducation - Suparna Choudhury and Joshua Berson;

15. The Reward of Musical Emotions and Expectations - Benjamin P. Gold and Robert J. Zatorre

16. Literary Analysis and Weak Theories - Omri Moses;

17. Capturing Context is Not Enough: the Embodied Impact of Story and Emotion in Ethnographic Film - Robert Lemelson and Anne Tucker;

18. Social Neuroscience in Global Mental Health: Case Study on Stigma Reduction in Nepal - Brandon Kohrt;

19. Cities, Psychosis, and Social Defeat - Firrhaana Sayanvala, Lisa Bornstein, Suparna Choudhury, Jai Shah, Daniel Weinstock, and Ian Gold;

20. Internet Sociality - Moriah Stendel, Maxwell Ramstead, Samuel P. L. Veissière;

21. Neurodiversity as a Conceptual Lens and Topic of Cross-Cultural Study - M. Ariel Cascio;

22. Epilogue: Interdisciplinarity in the Study of Culture, Mind, and Brain - Laurence Kirmayer, Carol M. Worthman and Shinobu Kitayama;

Index.

Human biology is cultural biology - we develop and live our lives in socially constructed worlds that vary widely in their structure, values, and institutions. This volume examines how our biology interacts with our immense cultural diversity to shape our experience, psychology, and imagination.