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Anthropology and the cognitive challenge / Maurice Bloch

Bloch, Maurice, 1939-

Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012

IX, 234 S. : Ill. ; 23 cm

Englisch

Machine generated contents note: 1. Why anthropologists cannot avoid cognitive issues and what they gain from these; 2. Innateness and social scientists' fears; 3. How anthropology abandoned a naturalist epistemology; 4. The nature/culture wars; 5. Time and the anthropologists; 6. Reconciling social science and cognitive science notions of the 'self'; 7. What goes without saying; 8. Memory.

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eb 20240324 ; 1 (Rechtsgrundlage DE-4165)

978-0-521-80355-7 ((hbk.) No price); 978-0-521-00615-6 ((pbk.) £17.99); 0-521-00615-5 ((pbk.) £17.99); 0-521-80355-1 ((hbk.) No price)

2012008279

016044259

9780521006156

OCoLC: 807029286     

OCoLC: 807029286 (aus SWB)     

LB 30000  | LC 50000  | CV 2500      Ähnliche Literatur

GN502

153 ; 305.8

Basisklassifikation: 73.79 (Ethnologie: Sonstiges)

*Anthropologie ; Kognitionswissenschaft      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Cognition and culture ; Anthropology ; Ethnopsychology

Ethnologie ; Anthropologie ; Wissenschaft ; Ethnology ; Cognitive science

"In this provocative new study one of the world's most distinguished anthropologists proposes that an understanding of cognitive science enriches, rather than threatens, the work of social scientists. Maurice Bloch argues for a naturalist approach to social and cultural anthropology, introducing developments in cognitive sciences such as psychology and neurology and exploring the relevance of these developments for central anthropological concerns: the person or the self, cosmology, kinship, memory and globalisation. Opening with an exploration of the history of anthropology, Bloch shows why and how naturalist approaches were abandoned and argues that these once valid reasons are no longer relevant. Bloch then shows how such subjects as the self, memory and the conceptualisation of time benefit from being simultaneously approached with the tools of social and cognitive science. Anthropology and the Cognitive Challenge will stimulate fresh debate among scholars and students across a wide range of disciplines"--