
How We Think They Think
Anthropological Approaches To Cognition, Memory, And Literacy
Maurice E. F. Bloch(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 28. August 2019
Book
Hardback
216 pages
978-0-367-31611-2 (ISBN)
Description
These essays by one of anthropology's most original theorists consider such fundamental questions as: Is cognition language-based? How reliable a guide to memory are people's narratives about themselves? What connects the ?social recalling? studied by anthropologists to the ?autobiographical memory? studied by psychologists? Now gathered in accessi
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
471 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-31611-2 (9780367316112)
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Maurice E. F. Bloch
How We Think They Think
Anthropological Approaches To Cognition, Memory, And Literacy
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02/2018
Routledge
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Maurice E. F. Bloch
How We Think They Think
Anthropological Approaches To Cognition, Memory, And Literacy
E-Book
02/2018
Routledge
€64.49
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Maurice E.F. Bloch
How We Think They Think
Anthropological Approaches To Cognition, Memory, And Literacy
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08/1998
1st Edition
Westview Press Inc
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Maurice E. F. Bloch
How We Think They Think
Anthropological Approaches To Cognition, Memory, And Literacy
Book
12/1997
1st Edition
Westview Press Inc
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Person
Maurice E.F. Bloch is professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics.
Content
Part 1 Introduction -- Cognition -- Language, Anthropology and Cognitive Science -- What Goes Without Saying: The Conceptualization of Zafimaniry Society -- Cognition and Ethnography -- Domain-Specificity, Living Kinds and Symbolism -- Part 2 Memory -- Internal and External Memory: Different Ways of Being in History -- The Resurrection of the House Amongst the Zafimaniry of Madagascar -- Time, Narratives and the Multiplicity of Representations of the Past -- Autobiographical Memory and the Historical Memory of the More Distant Past -- Part 3 Literacy -- Astrology and Writing in Madagascar -- Literacy and Enlightenment -- The Uses of Schooling and Literacy in a Zafimaniry Village 1 -- Why do Malagasy Cows Speak French?