The Development of Cognitive Anthropology / Edition 1

by Roy G. D'Andrade

Overview

In a historical account of the development of cognitive anthropology, Roy D'Andrade examines how cultural knowledge is organized within and between human minds. He begins by examining research carried out in the 1950s and 1960s concerned with how different cultures classify kinship relationships and the natural environment, and then traces the development of more complex cognitive theories of classification in anthropology that took place in the 1970s and 1980s. Finally, current work involving cultural models, emotion, motivation, and action is considered, along with a cognitive perspective on the nature of culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521459761
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	01/27/1995
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	739,784
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.63(d)

Table of Contents

1. Background; 2. Towards an analysis of meaning; 3. The classic feature model; 4. Extension of the feature model; 5. Folk taxonomies; 6. The growth of schema theory; 7. Models and theories; 8. Cultural representations and psychological processes; 9. Cognitive processes and personality; 10. Summing up; References; Indexes.

Editorial Reviews

"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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