ISBN:
9780195095975
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (447 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Culture in Mind : Cognition, Culture, and the Problem of Meaning
DDC:
155.8
Keywords:
Ethnopsychology
;
Cognition and culture
;
Social perception
;
Symbolic anthropology
;
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Abstract:
An ethnographic portrait of the human mind, using case studies from both western and non-western societies, this book argues that "cultural models" are necessary to the functioning of the human mind. The text explores the cognitive world of culture in the ongoing production of meaning everyday
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Foreword, Jerome Bruner; I: THE PROBLEM OF CULTURE IN MIND; Introduction; 1 The Psychic Unity Muddle; 2 Rethinking Culture as Models; II: THE COGNITIVE LANDSCAPE OF MODERNITY; 3 Mind Games: Cognitive Baseball; 4 Playing with Rules: Sport at the Borderlands of Time and Space; 5 Interior Furnishings: Scenes from an American Foundational Schema; 6 Technological Trends: The Neuromantic Frame of Mind; III: RETHINKING "PRIMITIVE CLASSIFICATION"; 7 Totem as Practically Reason: Rationality Reconsidered; 8 Kwakiutl Animal Symbolism: Food for Thought; IV: DREAMTIME LEARNING
Description / Table of Contents:
9 Dreamtime Learning, Inside-Out: The Narrative of the Wawilak Sisters10 Dreamtime Learning, Outside-In: Murngin Age-Grading Rites; V: THE PROBLEM OF MULTIPLE MODELS; 11 Tropic Landscapes: Alternative Spatial Models in Samoan Culture; 12 When Models Collide: Cultural Origins of Ambivalence; VI: CULTURE IN MIND; 13 Culture and the Problem of Meaning; 14 Analogical Transfer and the Work of Culture; Epilogue: The Ethnographic Mind; Bibliography; Index; Name Index; Subject Index;
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