Research Catalog

Title

A cognitive theory of cultural meaning / Claudia Strauss and Naomi Quinn.

Author

Strauss, Claudia

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Quinn, Naomi
• American Anthropological Association. Meeting (88th : 1989 : Washington, D.C.)

Description

xii, 323 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

This work grew from a session at the 1989 meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, D.C.

Series Statement

Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology ; 9

Uniform Title

Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology 9.

Subject

• Ethnopsychology > Congresses
• Cognition and culture > Congresses
• Connectionism > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Congresses (form)
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• This work grew from a session at the 1989 meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, D.C.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-312) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 052159409X (hardbound)
• 052159541X (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^97014944^

OCLC

• 36930621
• SCSB-10035817

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library