Title Culture in mind : cognition, culture, and the problem of meaning / Bradd Shore

Published New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 428 pages) : illustrations, 1 map Summary Culture in Mind is an ethnographic portrait of the human mind. Using case studies from both western and nonwestern societies. Shore argues that "cultural models" are necessary to the functioning of the human mind. Drawing on recent developments in cognitive science as well as anthropology, Culture in Mind explores the cognitive world of culture in the ongoing production of meaning in everyday thinking and feeling Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-411) and indexes Notes Print version record Subject Ethnopsychology. Cognition and culture. Social perception. Symbolic anthropology. ethnopsychology. PSYCHOLOGY -- Ethnopsychology. Cognition and culture Ethnopsychology Social perception Symbolic anthropology Form Electronic book LC no. 95011828 ISBN 1423760271 9781423760276 1280533617 9781280533617 9780195095975 0195095979

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