Theory and method at the intersection of anthropology and cultural neuroscience

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 130-137

  Seligman, Rebecca ^a   Brown, Ryan A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Cultural psychiatry; Emotion; Ethnography; Ritual

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EMOTION; HUMAN; NEUROSCIENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHIATRY; RESEARCH; REVIEW; SYMBOLISM;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CEREMONIAL BEHAVIOR; CULTURE; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; NEUROSCIENCES; PSYCHIATRY; RESEARCH;

EID: 77954461008     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsp032     Document Type: Article

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