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Informationen zum Autor Ronald C. Simons is Professor of Psychiatry and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Michigan State University, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. Klappentext The startle reflex provides a revealing model for examining the ways in which evolved neurophysiology shapes personal experience and patterns of recurrent social interaction. In the most diverse cultural contexts, in societies widely separated by time and space, the inescapable physiology of the reflex both shapes the experience of startle and biases the social usages to which the reflex is put. This book describes ways in which the startle reflex is experienced, culturally elaborated, and socially used in a wide variety of times and places. It offers explanations both for the patterned commonalities found across cultural settings and for the differences engendered by diverse social environments. Boo! will intrigue readers in fields such as psychological anthropology, medical anthropology, general cultural anthropology, social psychology, cross-cultural psychiatry, and human ethology. Zusammenfassung Simons uses the startle reflex as a revealing model for covering how evolved neurophysiology shapes personal experience, patterns of recurrence in actions, and the systems of meaning people collectively create and transmit. Using diverse sources, Simons observes how biology is expressed in culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Startle and Hyperstartle Introduction 1: Startle as a Personal Experience and as a Social Resource 2: Making People Jumpy: Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn Create a Hyperstartler 3: Variations on a Theme: Being Startled Makes One Ill 4: The Startle Museum I: Exhibits of Startle Sorted by their Expository Uses 5: The Startle Museum II: Exhibits of Startle Sorted by Properties of Startle Events Part II: Latah and Other Startle-Matching Syndromes 6: Attention Capture and the Startle-Matching Syndromes 7: Latah: The Paradigmatic Startle-Matching Syndrome 8: Explaining Latah: The Importance of Descriptive Detail 9: The Startle-Matching Syndrome in Other Cultures 10: Culture, Biology, and Individual Experience ...
