Anthropology and the cognitive challenge
In this provocative new study one of the worlds 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 devel...
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Cambridge University Press,
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Why social scientists should not avoid cognitive issues; 2. Innateness and social scientists fears; 3. How anthropology abandoned a naturalist epistemology; 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.