How We Think They Think : Anthropological Approaches To Cognition, Memory, And Literacy / Maurice E F Bloch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bloch, Maurice, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnopsychology.

Cognition and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Taylor and Francis, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"These essays by one of anthropology's most original theorists consider such fundamental questions as: Is cognition language-based? How reliable a guide to memory are people's narratives about themselves? What connects the 'social recalling? studied by anthropologists to the? autobiographical memory? studied by psychologists? Now gathered in accessible form for the first time and drawing frequently upon the author's fieldwork among the Zafimaniry of Madagascar for ethnographic examples, the twelve closely linked essays of How We Think They Think pose provocative challenges not only to conventional cognitive models but to the basic assumptions that underlie much of ethnography. This book will be read with interest by those who study culture and cognition, ethnographic theory and practice, and the peoples and cultures of Africa."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Part I Cognition; 1 Language, Anthropology and Cognitive Science; 2 What Goes Without Saying: The Conceptualization of Zafimaniry Society; 3 Cognition and Ethnography; 4 Domain-Specificity, Living Kinds and Symbolism; Part 2 Memory; 5 Internal and External Memory: Different Ways of Being in History; 6 The Resurrection of the House Amongst the Zafimaniry of Madagascar; 7 Time, Narratives and the Multiplicity of Representations of the Past; 8 Autobiographical Memory and the Historical Memory of the Distant Past; Part 3 Literacy; 9 Astrology and Writing in Madagascar

10 Literacy and Enlightenment11 The Uses of Schooling and Literacy in a Zafimaniry Village; 12 Why do Malagasy Cows Speak French?; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-97961-4

0-367-31611-0

0-8133-3373-3

0-429-96853-1

0-7867-4323-9

1-4294-8973-1

9780429499982

OCLC:

1027757250