anthropological assumptions
belief transmission
Bias Pattern
Biological Inheritance
Birth Parents
Bodily Traits
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cognitive anthropology
cognitive science in anthropology
controversial territory
Core Knowledge
Counterintuitive Nature
Cross-culturally Universal
cultural transmission
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Essentialist Construal
ethnographic analysis
evolutionary psychology
Evolutionism Bundles
Herringbone Tweed
Homo Sapiens Sapiens
Judgement Patterns
Kin Altruism
kinship systems
Living Kinds
Malagasy Villagers
Maurice Bloch
Mother's Brother
Mother’s Brother
Original Couple
Patrilineal Norm
Patrilineal Societies
Psycho Linguist
Red Macaws
ritual symbolism
Ritualized Transgression
Sister's Son
Sister’s Son
social sciences
Vice Versa
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781845202873
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book brings together recent work by Maurice Bloch which explores the highly controversial territory between the cognitive and social sciences. The essays are of broad, theoretical interest and aim to combine naturalistic approaches to cognition with a recognition and respect for the cultural and historical specificity of ethnography. All the essays illustrate Bloch's characteristic approach to the relation between anthropology and cognitive science, where cognitive science is used to criticize anthropological assumptions concerning such key topics as religion, kinship, belief, ritual, symbolism and art.
Maurice Bloch is Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. He is author and editor of numerous works in Anthropology, including Ritual, History and Power.
