Anthropology and the cognitive challenge

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 de...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bloch, Maurice, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2012.
Edition:1st ed
Series:New departures in anthropology.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798257206719
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.