The volume, co-edited by Dr Michał Żerkowski from the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Lodz, will try to provide an overview of the current landscape of evolutionarily, cognitively, and psychologically focused theoretical viewpoints in cultural anthropology and to present examples of creative applications of these approaches in research.
Some of the questions that the planned issue will try to answer are as follows:
- Can cultural anthropology embrace the theory of evolution as an explanatory framework for understanding cultures and human behaviour, and what implications does this have for the discipline?
- How can cultural anthropology benefit from research experiences of cognitive science of religion (CSR) representatives?
- What challenges and opportunities face contemporary cultural model theory and cultural consensus theory?
- In what ways can the integration of cognitive anthropology, cognitive science of religion, and cultural evolution enhance our understanding of culture transmission and socialization processes?
- How do contemporary anthropological reflections on competing theories of mind (e.g., cognitivism, computationalism, embodied cognition, the extended mind thesis, situated cognition, enactivism) inform our understanding of cultural phenomena?
All those interested can submit abstracts of 300 words until 1 May 2025.