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100 1 _aD'Andrade, Roy G.
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245 1 4 _aThe development of cognitive anthropology /
_cRoy D'Andrade.
260 _aCambridge ;
_aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c1995.
263 _a9501
300 _axiv, 272 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 253-267) and index
505 0 _a1. 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.
520 _aRoy 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.
520 8 _aIt 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.
520 8 _aThe 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.
650 0 _aEthnopsychology.
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650 0 _aCognition and culture.
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