ISBN:
978-1-4051-8778-7
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978-1-119-11165-8
Language:
English
Pages:
XV, 607 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Edition:
Paperback edition
Series Statement:
Blackwell Companions to Anthropology 10
Keywords:
Kognition Ethnopsychologie
;
Anthropologie
Abstract:
A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology offers a comprehensive overview of the development of cognitive anthropology from its inception to the present day and presents recent findings in the areas of theory, methodology, and field research in twenty-nine key essays by leading scholars.Demonstrates the importance of cognitive anthropology as an early constituent of the cognitive sciences Examines how culturally shared and complex cognitive systems work, how they are structured, how they differ from one culture to another, how they are learned and passed onExplains how cult A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology offers a comprehensive overview of the development of cognitive anthropology from its inception to the present day and presents recent findings in the areas of theory, methodology, and field research in twenty-nine key essays by leading scholars. * Demonstrates the importance of cognitive anthropology as an early constituent of the cognitive sciences * Examines how culturally shared and complex cognitive systems work, how they are structured, how they differ from one culture to another, how they are learned and passed on * Explains how cultural (or collective) vs. individual knowledge distinguishes cognitive anthropology from cognitive psychology * Examines recent theories and methods for studying cognition in real-world scenarios * Contains twenty-nine key essays by leading names in the field Review: "In elucidating tensions between individual andcollective, between idiosyncratic and commonplace, between thesocial, cultural, and environmental, and between the evolutionaryand situational, cognitive anthropology emerges as a significantcomponent of studying human being, and this volume provides auseful anthology and snapshot." ("Journal of theRoyal Astronomical Institute," 1 May 2013)"The fact that reading through these essays got methinking about the amazing range of research areas that could nowbe considered part of "cognitive anthropology" is a testament bothto the provocative value of this volume and the vitality of thesub-discipline of cognitive anthropology it is helping tore-imagine." ("Ethos," 1 February 2013)
Description / Table of Contents:
A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I History of Cognitive Anthropology; Nature and Types of Cultural Knowledge Structures; 1 A History of Cognitive Anthropology; 2 The History of the Cultural Models School Reconsidered: A Paradigm Shift in Cognitive Anthropology; 3 The Cognitive Context of Cognitive Anthropology; 4 The Limits of the Habitual: Shifting Paradigms for Language and Thought; 5 Types of Collective Representations: Cognition, Mental Architecture, and Cultural Knowledge 6 Personal Knowledge and Collective RepresentationsPART II Methodologies; 7 How to Collect Data that Warrant Analysis; 8 Data, Method, and Interpretation in Cognitive Anthropology; 9 Multi-Item Scales and Cognitive Ethnography; 10 Consensus Analysis; 11 Narrative, Mind, and Culture; 12 Simulation (and Modeling); PART III Cognitive Structures of Cultural Domains; 13 Mathematical Representation of Cultural Constructs; 14 Kinship Theory and Cognitive Theory in Anthropology; 15 Numerical Cognition and Ethnomathematics 16 "Indigenous Knowledge" and the Understanding of Cultural Cognition: The Contribution of Studies of Environmental Knowledge Systems17 Emotions, Motivation, and Behavior in Cognitive Anthropology; 18 Social Networks, Cognition, and Culture; PART IV Cognitive Anthropology and Other Disciplines; 19 Culture and Cognition: The Role of Cognitive Anthropology in Anthropology and the Cognitive Sciences; 20 Cultural Models, Power, and Hegemony; 21 Cognitive Anthropology through a Gendered Lens; 22 Sociality in Cognitive and Sociocultural Anthropologies: The Relationships Aren't Just Additive 23 Cognitive Anthropology and Education: Foundational Models of Self and Cultural Models of Teaching and Learning in Japan and the United States24 Archaeological Approaches to Cognitive Evolution; PART V Some Examples of Contemporary Research; 25 The Distributed Cognition Model of Mind; 26 A Foundational Cultural Model in Polynesia: Monarchy, Democracy, and the Architecture of the Mind; 27 Cognitive Approaches to the Study of Romantic Love: Semantic, Cross-Cultural, and as a Process 28 Trouble as Part of Everyday Life: Cognitive and Sociocultural Processes in Avoiding and Responding to Illness29 Using Consensus Analysis to Investigate Cultural Models of Alzheimer's Disease; Afterword: One Cognitive View of Culture; Index
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