عنوان

Anthropology and the cognitive challenge /

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0521006155 (paperback)

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0521803551 (hardback)

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9780521006156 (paperback)

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9780521803557 (hardback)

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Title Proper

Anthropology and the cognitive challenge /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Maurice Bloch

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2012

Date

1206

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

ix, 234 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

23 cm

Series Title

New departures in anthropology

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-229) and index

Text of Note

1. Why anthropologists cannot avoid cognitive issues and what they gain from these -- 2. Innateness and social scientists' fears -- 3. How anthropology abandoned a naturalist epistemology: a cognitive perspective on the history of anthropology -- 4. The nature/culture wars -- 5. Time and the anthropologists -- 6. Reconciling social science and cognitive science notions of the 'self' -- 7. What goes without saying -- 8. Memory

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"In this provocative new study one of the world's most distinguished anthropologists proposes that an understanding of cognitive science enriches, rather than threatens, the work of social scientists. Maurice Bloch argues for a naturalist approach to social and cultural anthropology, introducing developments in cognitive sciences such as psychology and neurology and exploring the relevance of these developments for central anthropological concerns: the person or the self, cosmology, kinship, memory and globalisation. Opening with an exploration of the history of anthropology, Bloch shows why and how naturalist approaches were abandoned and argues that these once valid reasons are no longer relevant. Bloch then shows how such subjects as the self, memory and the conceptualisation of time benefit from being simultaneously approached with the tools of social and cognitive science. Anthropology and the Cognitive Challenge will stimulate fresh debate among scholars and students across a wide range of disciplines"--

Anthropology

Cognition and culture

Ethnopsychology

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Edition

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Book number

Bloch, Maurice

Date of Transaction

20120910074014.0

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