A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology

Copyright © 2011 Blackwell Publishing, Ltd.

A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology

Editor(s): David B. Kronenfeld, Giovanni Bennardo, Victor C. de Munck, Michael D. Fischer

Published Online: 14 JUL 2011 10:30AM EST

Print ISBN: 9781405187787

Online ISBN: 9781444394931

DOI: 10.1002/9781444394931

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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

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xvi)

    1. Introduction (pages 1–7)

  3. Part I: History of Cognitive Anthropology; Nature and Types of Cultural Knowledge Structures

    1. Chapter 1

      A History of Cognitive Anthropology (pages 9–29)

      B. G. Blount

    2. Chapter 2

      The History of the Cultural Models School Reconsidered: A Paradigm Shift in Cognitive Anthropology (pages 30–46)

      Naomi Quinn

    3. Chapter 3

      The Cognitive Context of Cognitive Anthropology (pages 47–60)

      Jürg Wassmann, Christian Kluge and Dominik Albrecht

    4. Chapter 4

      The Limits of the Habitual: Shifting Paradigms for Language and Thought (pages 61–81)

      Janet Dixon Keller

    5. Chapter 5

      Types of Collective Representations: Cognition, Mental Architecture, and Cultural Knowledge (pages 82–101)

      Giovanni Bennardo and David B. Kronenfeld

    6. Chapter 6

      Personal Knowledge and Collective Representations (pages 102–114)

      John B. Gatewood

  4. Part II: Methodologies

    1. Chapter 7

      How to Collect Data that Warrant Analysis (pages 115–130)

      W. Penn Handwerker

    2. Chapter 8

      Data, Method, and Interpretation in Cognitive Anthropology (pages 131–152)

      James Boster

    3. Chapter 9

      Multi-Item Scales and Cognitive Ethnography (pages 153–170)

      Kateryna Maltseva and Roy D'Andrade

    4. Chapter 10

      Consensus Analysis (pages 171–190)

      Stephen P. Borgatti and Daniel S. Halgin

    5. Chapter 11

      Narrative, Mind, and Culture (pages 191–209)

      Benjamin N. Colby

    6. Chapter 12

      Simulation (and Modeling) (pages 210–226)

      Michael Fischer and David B. Kronenfeld

  5. Part III: Cognitive Structures of Cultural Domains

    1. Chapter 13

      Mathematical Representation of Cultural Constructs (pages 227–253)

      Dwight Read

    2. Chapter 14

      Kinship Theory and Cognitive Theory in Anthropology (pages 254–269)

      F. K. L. Chit Hlaing

    3. Chapter 15

      Numerical Cognition and Ethnomathematics (pages 270–289)

      Andrea Bender and Sieghard Beller

    4. Chapter 16

      “Indigenous Knowledge” and the Understanding of Cultural Cognition: The Contribution of Studies of Environmental Knowledge Systems (pages 290–313)

      Roy Ellen

    5. Chapter 17

      Emotions, Motivation, and behavior in Cognitive Anthropology (pages 314–330)

      E. N. Anderson

    6. Chapter 18

      Social Networks, Cognition, and Culture (pages 331–354)

      Douglas R. White

  6. Part IV: Cognitive Anthropology and Other Disciplines

    1. Chapter 19

      Culture and Cognition: The Role of Cognitive Anthropology in Anthropology and the Cognitive Sciences (pages 355–375)

      Norbert Ross and Douglas L. Medin

    2. Chapter 20

      Cultural Models, Power, and Hegemony (pages 376–392)

      Halvard Vike

    3. Chapter 21

      Cognitive Anthropology through a Gendered Lens (pages 393–412)

      Carol C. Mukhopadhyay

    4. Chapter 22

      Sociality in Cognitive and Sociocultural Anthropologies: The Relationships Aren't Just Additive (pages 413–429)

      Lynn Thomas

    5. Chapter 23

      Cognitive Anthropology and Education: Foundational Models of Self and Cultural Models of Teaching and Learning in Japan and the United States (pages 430–449)

      Hidetada Shimizu

    6. Chapter 24

      Archaeological Approaches to Cognitive Evolution (pages 450–467)

      Miriam Noël Haidle

  7. Part V: Some Examples of Contemporary Research

    1. Chapter 25

      The Distributed Cognition Model of Mind (pages 469–488)

      Brian Hazlehurst

    2. Chapter 26

      A Foundational Cultural Model in Polynesia: Monarchy, Democracy, and the Architecture of the Mind (pages 489–512)

      Giovanni Bennardo

    3. Chapter 27

      Cognitive Approaches to the Study of Romantic Love: Semantic, Cross-Cultural, and as a Process (pages 513–530)

      Victor C. de Munck

    4. Chapter 28

      Trouble as Part of Everyday Life: Cognitive and Sociocultural Processes in Avoiding and Responding to Illness (pages 531–547)

      Linda C. Garro

    5. Chapter 29

      Using Consensus Analysis to Investigate Cultural Models of Alzheimer's Disease (pages 548–568)

      Robert W. Schrauf and Madelyn Iris

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      Afterword: One Cognitive View of Culture (pages 569–583)

      David B. Kronenfeld

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      Index (pages 584–607)

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