A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology

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 on Explains how cultural (or collective) vs. individual knowledge distinguishes cognitive anthropology from cognitive psychology Examines recent theories and methods for studying cognition in real–world scenarios Contains twenty–nine key essays by leading names in the field INDICE: Notes on Contributors viii .Acknowledgments xvi .Introduction 1 .PART I History of Cognitive Anthropology; Nature and Types of Cultural Knowledge Structures 9 .1 A History of Cognitive Anthropology 11B. G. Blount .2 The History of the Cultural Models School Reconsidered: A Paradigm Shift in Cognitive Anthropology 30Naomi Quinn .3 The Cognitive Context of Cognitive Anthropology 47Jürg Wassmann, Christian Kluge, and Dominik Albrecht .4 The Limits of the Habitual: Shifting Paradigms for Language and Thought 61Janet Dixon Keller .5 Types of Collective Representations: Cognition, Mental Architecture, and Cultural Knowledge 82Giovanni Bennardo and David B. Kronenfeld .6 Personal Knowledge and Collective Representations 102John B. Gatewood .PART II Methodologies 115 .7 How to Collect Data that Warrant Analysis 117W. Penn Handwerker .8 Data, Method, and Interpretation in Cognitive Anthropology 131James Boster .9 Multi–Item Scales and Cognitive Ethnography 153Kateryna Maltseva and Roy D Andrade .10 Consensus Analysis 171Stephen P. Borgatti and Daniel S. Halgin .11 Narrative, Mind, and Culture 191Benjamin N. Colby .12 Simulation (and Modeling) 210Michael Fischer and David B. Kronenfeld .PART III Cognitive Structures of Cultural Domains 227 .13 Mathematical Representation of Cultural Constructs 229Dwight Read .14 Kinship Theory and Cognitive Theory in Anthropology 254F. K. L. Chit Hlaing (F. K. Lehman) .15 Numerical Cognition and Ethnomathematics 270Andrea Bender and Sieghard Beller .16 Indigenous Knowledge and the Understanding of Cultural Cognition: The Contribution of Studies of Environmental Knowledge Systems 290Roy Ellen .17 Emotions, Motivation, and Behavior in Cognitive Anthropology 314E. N. Anderson .18 Social Networks, Cognition, and Culture 331Douglas R. White .PART IV Cognitive Anthropology and Other Disciplines 355 .19 Culture and Cognition: The Role of Cognitive Anthropology in Anthropology and the Cognitive Sciences 357Norbert Ross and Douglas L. Medin .20 Cultural Models, Power, and Hegemony 376Halvard Vike .21 Cognitive Anthropology through a Gendered Lens 393Carol C. Mukhopadhyay .22 Sociality in Cognitive and Sociocultural Anthropologies: The Relationships Aren t Just Additive 413Lynn Thomas .23 Cognitive Anthropology and Education: Foundational Models of Self and Cultural Models of Teaching and Learning in Japan and the United States 430Hidetada Shimizu .24 Archaeological Approaches to Cognitive Evolution 450Miriam Noël Haidle .PART V Some Examples of Contemporary Research 469 .25 The Distributed Cognition Model of Mind 471Brian Hazlehurst .26 A Foundational Cultural Model in Polynesia: Monarchy, Democracy, and the Architecture of the Mind 489Giovanni Bennardo .27 Cognitive Approaches to the Study of Romantic Love: Semantic, Cross–Cultural, and as a Process 513Victor C. de Munck .28 Trouble as Part of Everyday Life: Cognitive and Sociocultural Processes in Avoiding and Responding to Illness 531Linda C. Garro .29 Using Consensus Analysis to Investigate Cultural Models of Alzheimer s Disease 548Robert W. Schrauf and Madelyn Iris .Afterword: One Cognitive View of Culture 569David B. Kronenfeld .Index 584

• ISBN: 978-1-119-11165-8
• Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 624
• Fecha Publicación: 27/11/2015
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