Roy 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. It 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. The 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. 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. Roy D'andrade. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 253-267) And Indexes.

Roy G. D'Andrade

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Cambridge, New York, England, 1995

1st, First Edition, US, 2005

1st, 1995

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-267) and indexes.

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.

xiv, 272 p. : 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-267) and indexes

2024-07-01