Contents

1.

Anthropology, Useful and Scientific: An Introduction

1

Pascal Boyer

2.

Institutions and Human Nature

11

Pascal Boyer

The Naturalness of (Many) Social Institutions: Evolved Cognition as their Foundation

15

with Michael Bang Petersen

3.

Why Ritualized Behavior?

49

Pascal Boyer

Why Ritualized Behavior? Precaution Systems and Action Parsing in Developmental, Pathological and Cultural Rituals

53

with Pierre Liénard

4.

Social Groups and Adapted Minds

113

Pascal Boyer

Safety, Threat, and Stress in Intergroup Relations: A Coalitional Index Model

117

with Rengin Firat & Florian van Leeuwen

5.

How People Think about the Economy

155

Pascal Boyer

Folk-Economic Beliefs: An Evolutionary Cogniti­­ve Model

159

with Michael Bang Petersen

6.

Detecting Mental Disorder

217

Pascal Boyer

Intuitive Expectations and the Detection of Mental Disorder: A Cognitive Background to Folk-Psychiatries

221

Pascal Boyer

7.

The Ideal of Integrated Social Science

253

Pascal Boyer

Modes of Scholarship in the Study of Culture

257

Pascal Boyer

List of Tables and Illustrations

275

Index

279

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