Cultural Guidance in the Development of the Human Mind Book

	Contributors
	Introduction: Culture as an Explanation of the Human Mind	1
Pt. I	Human Development from the Perspective of Comparative Psychology	7
1	Would Humans Without Language Be Apes?	9
2	Continuities Between Great Ape and Human Behaviors	27
3	Assumptions and Knowledge Construction: What Can Science Learn from Primate Languages and Cultures?	39
Pt. II	Culture in the Developing or Regressing Brain	61
4	Culture in Our Brains: Cross-Cultural Differences in the Brain-Behavior Relationships	63
5	Art and Brain Evolution	87
Pt. III	Cultural Perspective on Human Development	95
6	Origins of Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences in Human Behavior: An Ecocultural Perspective	97
7	Semiotics of Culture in Scientific and Carnivalistic Guises: Michail Bakhtin and Yuri Lotman	111
Pt. IV	The Role of Culture in Child Development	137
8	Making Sense in a World of Symbols	139
9	Development of Symbol Meaning and the Emergence of the Semiotically Mediated Mind	163
10	Constructing Knowledge Beyond the Senses: Worlds Too Big and Too Small to See	211
	Afterword: Animals, Brain, Culture, and Children - The Emerging Picture from Complementary Perspectives	229
	Index	243