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Culture, society, and cognition : collective goals, values, action, and knowledge / by David B. Kronenfeld.

Title
Culture, society, and cognition : collective goals, values, action, and knowledge / by David B. Kronenfeld.
Author
Kronenfeld, David B., 1941-
Publication
Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2008.

Details

Description
xiv, 277 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Mouton series in pragmatics , 1864-6409 ; 3
Uniform Title
Mouton series in pragmatics ; 3.
Subject
  • Cognitie
  • Cognition and culture
  • Culture
  • Cultuur
  • Distributed cognition
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-273) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Background and history -- Ch. 3. Language to culture -- building from Kronenfeld's semantic theory -- Ch. 4. Culture as Distributed Cognition -- Ch. 5. agent-based approach to cultural (and linguistic) change: Examples -- Ch. 6. Society (with a note on the self) -- Ch. 7. Ethnicity -- Ch. 8. social construction of ethnicity: Intuition, authenticity, authenticators -- the Sami example -- Ch. 9. Some kinds of cultural knowledge -- a non-exhaustive list -- Ch. 10. Illustrative examples -- Ch. 11. Problems -- messages vs. codes -- Ch. 12. Other theoretical issues and relationships -- Ch. 13. Illustrative examples: cultural models -- Ch. 14. Gregory Bateson: Pulling it all together.
ISBN
  • 9783110206074 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 3110206072 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2008037495