Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xvi
Introduction 1
Part I History of Cognitive Anthropology; Nature and Types of Cultural Knowledge Structures 9
1 A History of Cognitive Anthropology 11 B. G. Blount
2 The History of the Cultural Models School Reconsidered: A Paradigm Shift in Cognitive Anthropology 30 Naomi Quinn
3 The Cognitive Context of Cognitive Anthropology 47 Jürg Wassmann, Christian Kluge, and Dominik Albrecht
4 The Limits of the Habitual: Shifting Paradigms for Language and Thought 61 Janet Dixon Keller
5 Types of Collective Representations: Cognition, Mental Architecture, and Cultural Knowledge 82 Giovanni Bennardo and David B. Kronenfeld
6 Personal Knowledge and Collective Representations 102 John B. Gatewood
Part II Methodologies 115
7 How to Collect Data that Warrant Analysis 117 W. Penn Handwerker
8 Data, Method, and Interpretation in Cognitive Anthropology 131 James Boster
9 Multi-Item Scales and Cognitive Ethnography 153 Kateryna Maltseva and Roy D’Andrade
10 Consensus Analysis 171 Stephen P. Borgatti and Daniel S. Halgin
11 Narrative, Mind, and Culture 191 Benjamin N. Colby
12 Simulation (and Modeling) 210 Michael Fischer and David B. Kronenfeld
Part III Cognitive Structures of Cultural Domains 227
13 Mathematical Representation of Cultural Constructs 229 Dwight Read
14 Kinship Theory and Cognitive Theory in Anthropology 254 F. K. L. Chit Hlaing (F. K. Lehman)
15 Numerical Cognition and Ethnomathematics 270 Andrea Bender and Sieghard Beller
16 “Indigenous Knowledge” and the Understanding of Cultural Cognition: The Contribution of Studies of Environmental Knowledge Systems 290 Roy Ellen
17 Emotions, Motivation, and Behavior in Cognitive Anthropology 314 E. N. Anderson
18 Social Networks, Cognition, and Culture 331 Douglas R. White
Part IV Cognitive Anthropology and Other Disciplines 355
19 Culture and Cognition: The Role of Cognitive Anthropology in Anthropology and the Cognitive Sciences 357 Norbert Ross and Douglas L. Medin
20 Cultural Models, Power, and Hegemony 376 Halvard Vike
21 Cognitive Anthropology through a Gendered Lens 393 Carol C. Mukhopadhyay
22 Sociality in Cognitive and Sociocultural Anthropologies: The Relationships Aren’t Just Additive 413 Lynn Thomas
23 Cognitive Anthropology and Education: Foundational Models of Self and Cultural Models of Teaching and Learning in Japan and the United States 430 Hidetada Shimizu
24 Archaeological Approaches to Cognitive Evolution 450 Miriam Noël Haidle
Part V Some Examples of Contemporary Research 469
25 The Distributed Cognition Model of Mind 471 Brian Hazlehurst
26 A Foundational Cultural Model in Polynesia: Monarchy, Democracy, and the Architecture of the Mind 489 Giovanni Bennardo
27 Cognitive Approaches to the Study of Romantic Love: Semantic, Cross-Cultural, and as a Process 513 Victor C. de Munck
28 Trouble as Part of Everyday Life: Cognitive and Sociocultural Processes in Avoiding and Responding to Illness 531 Linda C. Garro
29 Using Consensus Analysis to Investigate Cultural Models of Alzheimer’s Disease 548 Robert W. Schrauf and Madelyn Iris
Afterword: One Cognitive View of Culture 569 David B. Kronenfeld
Index 584