Learning the 'banana-tree': Self modification through movement

Redrawing Anthropology: Materials, Movements, Lines

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 77-90

  Downey, Greg ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900132900     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

References (37)

1. Adkins, D.L., Boychuk, J., Remple, M.S. and Kleim, J.A. 2006. Motor training induces experience-specific patterns of plasticity across motor cortex and spinal cord. Journal of Applied Physiology 101, 1776-1782.
2. Bastien, G.J., Schepens, B., Willems, P.A. and Heglund, N.C. 2005. Energetics of load carrying in Nepalese porters. Science 308 (5729), 1755.
3. Berthoz, A. 2000. The Brain's Sense of Movement, translated by G. Weiss. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
4. Browning, B. 1995. Samba: Resistance in Motion. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.
5. Browning, B. 1997. Headspin: capoeira's ironic inversions, in Everynight Life: Culture and Dance in Latin/o America, edited by C.F. Delgado and J.E. Muñoz. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 65-92.
6. D'Andrade, R.G. 1981. The cultural part of cognition. Cognitive Science 5, 179-195.
7. Dossar, K.M. 1994. Dancing Between Two Worlds: An Aesthetic Analysis of Capoeira Angola. PhD dissertation, Temple University.
8. Downey, G. 2005. Learning Capoeira: Lessons in Cunning from an Afro-Brazilian Art. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
9. Downey, G. 2008a. Coaches as phenomenologists: para-ethnographic work in sports. Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies (ADSA), Being There: Before, During and After.
10. Downey, G. 2008b. Scaffolding imitation in capoeira: physical education and enculturation in an Afro-Brazilian art. American Anthropologist 110(2), 204-213.
11. Downey, G. 2010. 'Practice without theory': a neuroanthropological perspective on embodied learning, in Making Knowledge: Explorations of the Indissoluble Relation Between Mind, Body and Environment, edited by T.H.J. Marchand. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 21-38.
12. Downey, G. forthcoming. Neuroanthropology, in Handbook of Social Anthropology, edited by R. Fardon, with J. Gledhill, T. Marchand, M. Nuttall, C. Shore, V. Strang and R. Wilson. London: Sage.
13. Draganski, B. and May, A. 2008. Training-induced structural changes in the adult human brain. Behavioural Brain Research 192, 137-142.
14. Heglund, N.C., Willems, P.A., Penta, M. and Cavagna, G.A. 1995. Energy-saving gait mechanics with head-supported loads. Nature 375, 52.
15. Henrich, J., Heine, S.J. and Norenzayan, A. 2010. The weirdest people in the world? Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33(1), 61-135.
16. Ingold, T. 2000. The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill. London and New York: Routledge.
17. LeVine, R.A. 1990. Enculturation: a biosocial perspective on the development of self, in The Self in Transition: Infancy and Childhood, edited by D. Cicchetti and M. Beeghley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 99-117.
18. LeVine, R.A. 1999. An agenda for psychological anthropology. Ethos 27(1), 15-24.
19. Llinás, R.R. 2001. I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
20. Maloiy, G.M.O., Heglund, N.C., Prager, L.M., Cavagna, G.A. and Taylor C.R. 1986. Energetic cost of carrying loads: have African women discovered an economic way? Nature 319, 668-669.
21. Mareschal, D., Johnson, M.H., Sioris, S., Spratling, M.W., Thomas, M.S.C. and Westermann, G. 2007. Neuroconstructivism: How the Brain Constructs Cognition (Volume 1). New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
22. Martin, E. 2000. Mind-body problems. American Ethnologist 27(3), 569-590.
23. Metta, G., Sandini, G. and Konszak, J. 1999. A developmental approach to visually guided reaching in artificial systems. Neural Networks 12(10), 1413-1427.
24. Minetti, A.E., Formenti, F. and Ardigo, L.P. 2006. Himalayan porter's specialization: metabolic power, economy, efficiency and skill. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 273(1602), 2791-2797.
25. Panter-Brick, C. 1992. The energy cost of common tasks in rural Nepal: levels of energy expenditure compatible with sustained physical activity. European Journal of Applied Physiology 64(5), 477.
26. Rogoff, B. 1990. Apprenticeship in Thinking: Cognitive Development in Social Contexts. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
27. Rogoff, B. 2003. The Cultural Nature of Human Development. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
28. Soule, R.G. and Goldman, R.F. 1969. Energy cost of loads carried on the head, hands and feet. Journal of Applied Physiology 27(5), 687-690.
29. Strauss, C. 1992. Models and motives, in Human Motives and Cultural Models, edited by R. D'Andrade and C. Strauss. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1-20.
30. Strauss, C. and Quinn, N. 1997. A Cognitive Theory of Cultural Meaning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
31. Thelen, E. 1995. Motor development: a new synthesis. American Psychologist 50(2), 79-95.
32. Thelen, E., Corbetta, D. and Spencer, J.P. 1996. Development of reaching during the first year: role of movement speed. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 22(5), 1059-1076.
33. Tjernström, F., Fransson, P.-A., Hafström, A. and Magnusson, M. 2002. Adaptation of postural control to perturbations - a process that initiates long-term motor memory. Gait and Posture 15(1), 75-82.
34. Vygotsky, L.S. 1962. Thought and Language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
35. Wallman, J. 1994. Nature and nurture of myopia. Nature 371(6494), 201-2.
36. Wallman, J. 2003. Developmental Plasticity and Evolution. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
37. Yin, H.H., Mulcare, S.P., Hilário, M.R.F., Clouse, E., Holloway, T., Davis, M.I., Hansson, A.C., Lovinger, D.M. and Costa, R.M. 2009. Dynamic reorganization of striatal circuits during the acquisition and consolidation of a skill. Nature Neuroscience 12(3), 333-341.