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Author Strauss, Claudia, 1953-

Title A cognitive theory of cultural meaning / Claudia Strauss and Naomi Quinn
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997

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Description xii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology ; 9
Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology ; 9
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Anthropological resistance -- 3. Schema theory and connectionism -- 4. Two properties of culture -- 5. Three further properties of culture -- 6. Research of shared task solutions / Naomi Quinn -- 7. Research on the psychodynamics of shared understandings / Naomi Quinn -- 8. Research on cultural discontinuities / Claudia Strauss -- 9. Beyond old oppositions
Notes This work grew from a session at the 1989 meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, D.C
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-312) and indexes
Subject Cognition and culture -- Congresses.
Connectionism -- Congresses.
Culture -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
Ethnopsychology -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Quinn, Naomi.
American Anthropological Association. Meeting (87th : 1989 : Washington, D.C.)
LC no. 97014944
ISBN 052159409X (hardbound)
052159541X (paperback)