Essays on Cultural Transmission

Herausgeber: Bloch, Maurice

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together recent work by Maurice Bloch which explores thehighly controversial territory between the cognitive and social sciences. The essays are of broad, theoretical interest and aim to combine naturalistic approaches to cognition with a recognition and respect for the cultural and historical specificity of ethnography. All the essays illustrate Bloch's characteristic approach to the relation between anthropology and cognitive science, where cognitive science is used to criticize anthropological assumptions concerning such key topics as religion, kinship, belief, ritual, symbolism and art.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781845202866
• ISBN-10: 1845202864
• Artikelnr.: 21544700

Autorenporträt

Maurice Bloch is Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. He is author and editor of numerous works in Anthropology, including Ritual, History and Power.

Inhaltsangabe

Questions not to ask of Malagasy carvings
Why trees are good to think with
A well-disposed anthropologists' problem with memes
Kinship and evolved psychological dispositions
An understanding of what is passed on from parents
Are religious beliefs counterintuitive?
Introduction to "Political language and oratory"
The reception of Levi-Strauss in Great Britain
On deference
Where did anthropology go?