A full understanding of human action requires an understanding of what motivates people to do what they do. For too many years studies of motivation have drawn from different theoretical paradigms. Typically, human motivation has been modeled on animal behavior, while culture has been described as pure knowledge or symbol. The result has been insufficient appreciation of the role of culture in human motivation and a truncated view of culture as disembodied knowledge. The anthropologists in this volume have attempted a different approach, seeking to integrate knowledge, desire, and action into a single explanatory framework. This research builds on recent work in cognitive anthropology on cultural models.
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'This useful, at times exciting, collection revives the integrationist vision of culture of Weber, Benedict and geertz ...' David Lipset, Current Anthropology
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Developed from research in cognitive anthropology on cultural models, through which human realities are constructed and interpreted, this study of human motivation also draws upon developmental psychology, and psychoanalytic and social theory.
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personal semantic networks, breadwinner values, prototypical event sequences, directive content, directive conclusion, directive force, marital goals, cognitive salience, most general interpretations, cultural schemas, other working men, bounded way, cultural meaning systems, cognitive anthropologists, master motives, breadwinner model, cultural models, motivational force, success values Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, Naomi Quinn, University of Chicago Press, Harvard University Press, Roy D'Andrade, Rhode Island, United States, University of California Press, American Ethnologist, Lawrence Erlbaum, Tony D'Abrosca, Cultural Psychology, American Anthropological Association, George Gauvin, Jim Lovett, New Haven, Research Group, Academic Press, Basic Books, John Wiley, New England, Richard Nice, Trobriand Islands, Anthony Gallucci New!
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