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Culture in mind : cognition, culture, and the problem of meaning

Author: Bradd Shore
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Despite the recognized importance of cultural diversity in understanding the modern world, the emerging science of cognitive psychology has relied far more on experimental psychology, neurobiology, and computer science than on cultural anthropology for its models of how we think. In new book, anthropologist Bradd Shore has created the first study linking multiculturalism to cognitive psychology, exploring the complex
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Bradd Shore
ISBN: 0195095979 9780195095975 0195126629 9780195126624
OCLC Number: 32203564
Description: xvii, 428 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Contents: Foreword / Jerome Bruner --
I. The Problem of Culture in Mind --
II. The Cognitive Landscape of Modernity --
III. Rethinking "Primitive Classification" --
IV. Dreamtime Learning --
V. The Problem of Multiple Models --
VI. Culture in Mind --
Epilogue: The Ethnographic Mind.
Responsibility: Bradd Shore.
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Abstract:

Despite the recognized importance of cultural diversity in understanding the modern world, the emerging science of cognitive psychology has relied far more on experimental psychology, neurobiology, and computer science than on cultural anthropology for its models of how we think. In new book, anthropologist Bradd Shore has created the first study linking multiculturalism to cognitive psychology, exploring the complex relationship between cultural expressions in public institutions and in mental representations. In so doing, he answers in a completely new way the age-old question of whether humans are basically the same psychologically, independent of cultures, or essentially different.

The author argues that culture must be considered an intrinsic component of the human mind to a degree that most psychologists and even many anthropologists have not recognized. This new position of cultural models will make absorbing reading for psychologists, anthropologists, linguists, and philosophers, and for anyone interested in the issues of cultural diversity, multiculturalism, or cognitive science in general.

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