A companion to cognitive anthropology / edited by David B. Kronenfeld ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kronenfeld, David B., 1941-

Series:

Blackwell companions to anthropology ; 16.

Blackwell companions to anthropology ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnopsychology.

Cognition and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (625 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

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

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613408136

9781444394924

1444394924

9781444394931

1444394932

9781782684435

1782684433

9781283408134

1283408139

9781444350753

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9781444394917

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OCLC:

742333190