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The Evolution of Chinese Filiality - Insights from the Neurosciences (Paperback)
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The Evolution of Chinese Filiality - Insights from the Neurosciences (Paperback)
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This unique book brings a fresh interdisciplinary approach to the
analysis of ancient Chinese history, creating a historical model
for the emergence of cultural mainstays by applying recent dramatic
findings in the fields of neuroscience and cultural evolution. The
centrality in Chinese culture of a deep reverence for the lives of
preceding generations, filial piety, is conventionally attributed
to Confucius (551-479 B.C.), who viewed hierarchical family
relations as foundational for social order. Here, Porter argues
that Confucian conceptions of filiality themselves evolved from a
systemized set of behaviors and thoughts, a mental structure, which
descended from a specific Neolithic mindset, and that this
psychological structure was contoured by particular emotional
conditions experienced by China's earliest farmers. Using case
study analysis from Neolithic sky observers to the dynastic
cultures of the Shang and Western Zhou, the book shows how filial
piety evolved as a structure of feeling, a legacy of a cultural
predisposition toward particular moods and emotions that were
inherited from the ancestral past. Porter also brings new urgency
to the topic of ecological grief, linking the distress central to
the evolution of the filial structure to its catalyst in an
environmental crisis. With a blended multidisciplinary approach
combining social neuroscience, cultural evolution, cognitive
archaeology, and historical analysis, this book is ideal for
students and researchers in neuropsychology, religion, and Chinese
culture and history.
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