The relationship between everyday experience and culture - seen as a set of ideas, values, or symbolic codes - has challenged social scientists and especially anthropologists, for more than a century. As a comprehensive and critical account of knowledge and research in the field of culture theory, leading social scientists explore the implications for understanding different aspects of subjective experience, social practice, and individual behavior. The focus of the volume is on the role of symbols and meaning in the development of mind, self, and emotion. They examine the content of culture and how it interacts with cognitive, social, and emotional growth; how ideas relate to attitudes, feelings, and behavior; how concepts and meanings are historically transmitted. They also explore methodological and conceptual problems involved in the definition and study of meaning, and revisit the perennial problem of 'relativism' in light of topical advances in semantic analysis and in culture theory. This book will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience of anthropologists, psychologists, philosophers, historians, and linguists, as well as those interested in hermeneutics and a science of subjectivity.
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The relationship between everyday experience and culture is revealed through essays concerned with the role of symbols and meaning in the development of mind, self and emotion and the dynamics of cultural interaction and transmission.
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Cognitive anthropologists draw inferences about the mind of man by studying the ideas and actions of exotic peoples. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
data attenuation rule, normative cultural relativism, ranking caregiver, cultural propositions, nonrational domains, nonrational ideas, caregiver speech, social exchange network, cultural meaning systems, classical postulates, emotional determinants, cognitive salience, intellectual motivation, infant damnation, culture theorists, constitutive rules, developmental stories, verbal environment, sociocultural knowledge, concrete style, alternative codings, developmental story, basic color terms, complex psychological processes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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data attenuation rule, normative cultural relativism, ranking caregiver, cultural propositions, nonrational domains, nonrational ideas, caregiver speech, social exchange network, cultural meaning systems, classical postulates, emotional determinants, cognitive salience, intellectual motivation, infant damnation, culture theorists, constitutive rules, developmental stories, verbal environment, sociocultural knowledge, concrete style, alternative codings, developmental story, basic color terms, complex psychological processes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, Academic Press, University of Chicago Press, American Anthropologist, Basic Books, University of California Press, Harvard University Press, San Francisco, New Guinea, United States, Child Psychology, Clifford Geertz, Oxford University Press, American Anthropological Association, Cornell University Press, Englewood Cliffs, Free Press, Journal of Personality, Stanford University Press, Journal of Child Language, Random House, The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition, University Park Press, Clarendon Press New!
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- The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquistion : Expanding the Contexts by Dan Isaac Slobin on 5 pages
- Meaning in Anthropology by Keith H. Basso on 4 pages
- Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language by John R. Searle on page 64, page 119, and page 157
- Patterns of Culture by Ruth Benedict on page 67, page 86, and page 154
- Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution by Brent Berlin on page 61, page 154, and page 196
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