Culture in mind : cognition, culture, and the problem of meaning
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Culture in mind : cognition, culture, and the problem of meaning
Oxford University Press, 1998, c1996
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"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1998"--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. 383-411
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Culture in Mind is an ethnographic portrait of the human mind. Using case studies from both western and nonwestern societies. Shore argues that "cultural models" are necessary to the functioning of the human mind. Drawing on recent developments in cognitive science as well as anthropology, Culture in Mind explores the cognitive world of culture in the ongoing production of meaning in everyday thinking and feeling.
Table of Contents
PART I: The Problem of Culture in Mind
1: The Psychic Unity Muddle
2: Rethinking Culture as Models
PART II: The Cognitive Landscape of Modernity
3: Mind Games: Cognitive Baseball
4: Playing With Rules: Sport at the Borderlands of Time and Space
5: Interior Furnishings: Scenes from an American Foundational Schema
6: Technologic Trends: The Neuromatic Frame of Mind
PART III: Rethinking "Primitive Classification"
7: Totem as Practically Reason: Rationality Reconsidered
8: Kwakiutl Animal Symbolism: Food for Thought
PART IV: Dreamtime Learning
9: Dreamtime Learning, Inside-Out: The Narrative of the Wawilak Sisters
10: Dreamtime Learning, Outside-In: Murngin Age-Grading Rituals
PART V: The Problem of Multiple Models
11: Tropic Landscapes: Alternative Spatial Models in Samoan Culture
12: When Models Collide: Cultural Origins of Ambivalence
PART VI: Culture in Mind
13: Culture and the Problem of Meaning
14: Analogical Transfer and the Work of Culture
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