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A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology
"The sheer vibrancy of modern cognitive anthropology is brilliantly reflected in this Companion. The development of the field since the early days of ethnoscience is as refreshing as it is remarkable." "A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology is an outstanding collection of papers covering a range of topics that accurately reflect current trends and major emphases in anthropologically informed studies of cognition." "A rich treasure-house of science-based anthropology." "Read this good companion to find out what cultural anthropology contributes to the cognitive science agenda. Are there scientific methods for discovering what people know and how they think by virtue of ethnic ancestry and cultural inheritance? Read these essays and find out."
Brent Berlin, University of Georgia
Steven Tyler, Rice University
Margaret Boden, University of Sussex
Richard A. Shweder, University of Chicago
David B. Kronenfeld (Edited by), DB Kronenfeld (Author), Giovanni Bennardo (Edited by), Victor C. de Munck (Edited by), Michael D. Fischer (Edited by)
9781405187787, Wiley
Hardback, published 5 April 2011
624 pages
25.4 x 18 x 3.9 cm, 1.275 kg
“In elucidating tensions between individual and collective, between idiosyncratic and commonplace, between the social, cultural, and environmental, and between the evolutionary and situational, cognitive anthropology emerges as a significant component of studying human being, and this volume provides a useful anthology and snapshot.” (Journal of the Royal Astronomical Institute, 1 May 2013) “The fact that reading through these essays got me thinking about the amazing range of research areas that could now be considered part of "cognitive anthropology" is a testament both to the provocative value of this volume and the vitality of the sub-discipline of cognitive anthropology it is helping to re-imagine.” (Ethos, 1 February 2013)
This new Companion traces the development of cognitive anthropology from its beginnings in the late 1950s to the present, and evaluates future directions of research in the field. In 29 contributions from leading anthropologists, there is an overview of cognitive and cultural structures, insights into how cognition works in everyday life and interacts with culture, and examples of contemporary research. A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology is essential for anyone interested in the questions of how culture shapes cognitive processes.
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 11 2 The History of the Cultural Models School Reconsidered: A Paradigm Shift in Cognitive Anthropology 30 3 The Cognitive Context of Cognitive Anthropology 47 4 The Limits of the Habitual: Shifting Paradigms for Language and Thought 61 5 Types of Collective Representations: Cognition, Mental Architecture, and Cultural Knowledge 82 6 Personal Knowledge and Collective Representations 102 Part II Methodologies 115 7 How to Collect Data that Warrant Analysis 117 8 Data, Method, and Interpretation in Cognitive Anthropology 131 9 Multi-Item Scales and Cognitive Ethnography 153 10 Consensus Analysis 171 11 Narrative, Mind, and Culture 191 12 Simulation (and Modeling) 210 Part III Cognitive Structures of Cultural Domains 227 13 Mathematical Representation of Cultural Constructs 229 14 Kinship Theory and Cognitive Theory in Anthropology 254 15 Numerical Cognition and Ethnomathematics 270 16 “Indigenous Knowledge” and the Understanding of Cultural Cognition: The Contribution of Studies of Environmental Knowledge Systems 290 17 Emotions, Motivation, and Behavior in Cognitive Anthropology 314 18 Social Networks, Cognition, and Culture 331 Part IV Cognitive Anthropology and Other Disciplines 355 19 Culture and Cognition: The Role of Cognitive Anthropology in Anthropology and the Cognitive Sciences 357 20 Cultural Models, Power, and Hegemony 376 21 Cognitive Anthropology through a Gendered Lens 393 22 Sociality in Cognitive and Sociocultural Anthropologies: The Relationships Aren’t Just Additive 413 23 Cognitive Anthropology and Education: Foundational Models of Self and Cultural Models of Teaching and Learning in Japan and the United States 430 24 Archaeological Approaches to Cognitive Evolution 450 Part V Some Examples of Contemporary Research 469 25 The Distributed Cognition Model of Mind 471 26 A Foundational Cultural Model in Polynesia: Monarchy, Democracy, and the Architecture of the Mind 489 27 Cognitive Approaches to the Study of Romantic Love: Semantic, Cross-Cultural, and as a Process 513 28 Trouble as Part of Everyday Life: Cognitive and Sociocultural Processes in Avoiding and Responding to Illness 531 29 Using Consensus Analysis to Investigate Cultural Models of Alzheimer’s Disease 548 Afterword: One Cognitive View of Culture 569 Index 584
B. G. Blount
Naomi Quinn
Jürg Wassmann, Christian Kluge, and Dominik Albrecht
Janet Dixon Keller
Giovanni Bennardo and David B. Kronenfeld
John B. Gatewood
W. Penn Handwerker
James Boster
Kateryna Maltseva and Roy D’Andrade
Stephen P. Borgatti and Daniel S. Halgin
Benjamin N. Colby
Michael Fischer and David B. Kronenfeld
Dwight Read
F. K. L. Chit Hlaing (F. K. Lehman)
Andrea Bender and Sieghard Beller
Roy Ellen
E. N. Anderson
Douglas R. White
Norbert Ross and Douglas L. Medin
Halvard Vike
Carol C. Mukhopadhyay
Lynn Thomas
Hidetada Shimizu
Miriam Noël Haidle
Brian Hazlehurst
Giovanni Bennardo
Victor C. de Munck
Linda C. Garro
Robert W. Schrauf and Madelyn Iris
David B. Kronenfeld
Subject Areas: Archaeology [HD]
