Anthropologists as cognitive scientists

Astuti, Rita and Bloch, Maurice (2012) Anthropologists as cognitive scientists. Topics in Cognitive Science, 4 (3). pp. 453-461. ISSN 1756-8757

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Abstract

Anthropology combines two quite different enterprises: the ethnographic study of particular people in particular places and the theorizing about the human species. As such, anthropology is part of cognitive science in that it contributes to the unitary theoretical aim of understanding and explaining the behavior of the animal species Homo sapiens. This article draws on our own research experience to illustrate that cooperation between anthropology and the other sub-disciplines of cognitive science is possible and fruitful, but it must proceed from the recognition of anthropology’s unique epistemology and methodology.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28...
Additional Information:	© 2012 Cognitive Science Society
Library of Congress subject classification:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology
Sets:	Departments > Anthropology
Date Deposited:	13 Jul 2012 09:08
URL:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/44845/

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