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Paperback | 3 April 1995

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Roy D'Andrade has written a lucid historical account of the growth and development of the field of cognitive anthropology. The origins of cognitive anthropology can be traced back to the late 1950s when anthropology was grappling with the problem of understanding native systems of categorization. This book starts with an evaluation of these formative years, portraying the way in which research evolved across more than thirty years to the present. It traces the way in which the early notions about semantics and taxonomies evolved into more sophisticated theories about prototypes, schemas, and connectionist networks, seen as the cognitive mechanisms underlying the organization of folk models and reasoning in ordinary life. This is followed by a review of the most recent research on the social distribution of cultural knowledge and the relation of cultural models to emotion, motivation, and action. The final section summarizes the general theoretical perspective of cognitive anthropology, which treats culture as particulate, socially distributed, variably internalized and embodied in physical structures - a view which opposes structuralist, interpretive, and post-modern conceptions of culture.

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"This book will be a first-rate text for any course in cognitive anthropology and a fine supplement for survey courses in the cognitive sciences. It is also an important resource for professional anthropologists, and should be read by cognitive scientists..." Choice "...provides the best overview of cognitive anthropology we have to date...D'Andrade does a masterful and balanced job of presenting the contributions of a range of perspectives while making his own positions clear along the way...clear, authoritative, and useful...provides some important guideposts about how we might pursue a research agenda without reinventing too many wheels." James V. Wertsch, Contemporary Psychology

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Non-Fiction Psychology Society & Culture Social Groups Ethnic Studies Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Background
Towards an analysis of meaning
The classic feature model
Extension of the feature model
Folk taxonomies
The growth of schema theory
Models and theories
Cultural representations and psychological processes
Cognitive processes and personality
Summing up
References
Indexes
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