The author gratefully wishes to acknowledge the assistance of Pertti J. Pelto and Patricia M. Robbins in the preparation of the manuscript and to thank Daniel E. Berlyne for reading it and providing additional materials.
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Material Culture and Cognition†
Article first published online: 28 OCT 2009
DOI: 10.1525/aa.1966.68.3.02a00100
1966 American Anthropological Association
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Robbins, M. C. (1966), Material Culture and Cognition. American Anthropologist, 68: 745–748. doi: 10.1525/aa.1966.68.3.02a00100
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