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How We Think They Think : Anthropological Approaches To Cognition, Memory, And Literacy.
These essays by one of anthropology's most original theorists consider such fundamental questions as: Is cognition language-based? How reliable a guide to memory are people's narratives about themselves? What connects the?social recalling" studied by anthropologists to the?autobiograp...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Westview Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; Part I Cognition; 1 Language, Anthropology and Cognitive Science; 2 What Goes Without Saying: The Conceptualization of Zafimaniry Society; 3 Cognition and Ethnography; 4 Domain-Specificity, Living Kinds and Symbolism; Part 2 Memory; 5 Internal and External Memory: Different Ways of Being in History; 6 The Resurrection of the House Amongst the Zafimaniry of Madagascar; 7 Time, Narratives and the Multiplicity of Representations of the Past; 8 Autobiographical Memory and the Historical Memory of the Distant Past; Part 3 Literacy; 9 Astrology and Writing in Madagascar.
- 10 Literacy and Enlightenment11 The Uses of Schooling and Literacy in a Zafimaniry Village; 12 Why do Malagasy Cows Speak French?; Index.