Kronenfeld | Culture as a System | Buch | 978-0-367-59478-7 | sack.de

Buch, Englisch, 142 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 231 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

Kronenfeld

Culture as a System


How We Know the Meaning and Significance of What We Do and Say

Buch, Englisch, 142 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 231 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

ISBN: 978-0-367-59478-7
Verlag: Routledge

A particular culture is associated with a particular community, and thus has a social dimension. But how does culture operate and how is it to be defined? Is it to be taken as the behavioral repertoire of members of that community, as the products of their behavior, or as the shared mental content that produces the behavior? Is it to be viewed as a coherent whole or only a collection of disparate parts? Culture is shared, but how totally? How is culture learned and maintained over time, and how does it change?

In Meaning and Significance in Human Engagement, Kronenfeld adopts a cognitive approach to culture to offer answers to these questions. Combining insights from cognitive psychology and linguistic anthropology with research on collective knowledge systems, he offers an understanding of culture as a phenomenon produced and shaped by a combination of conditions, constraints and logic.

Engagingly written, it is essential reading for scholars and graduate students of cognitive anthropology, linguistic anthropology, sociology of culture, philosophy, and computational cognitive science.
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Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kronenfeld, David B.

Fachgebiete

Weitere Infos & Material

1. Introduction 2. Semantics and Pragmatics 3. Linguistic Relativity 4. Culture as Shared Differentially Distributed Pragmatic Knowledge 5. Shared Cultural Knowledge as Defining Social Groups 6. Prototype-Extension 7. Shared Differentially Distributed Cognitive Structures 8. Cultural Models of Action 9. Flexibility and Variability 10. Practical Implications for Analysis 11. Conclusion

David B. Kronenfeld is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Anthropology at University of California, Riverside, USA.

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