Essays on cultural transmission / Maurice Bloch.
This book brings together recent work by Maurice Bloch which explores the highly 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 an...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2020.
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| Series: | Monographs on social anthropology ;
v. 75. |
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| Summary: | This book brings together recent work by Maurice Bloch which explores the highly 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. |
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| Item Description: | "First published 2005 by Berg Publishers"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (188 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781003135500 1003135501 9781000323641 1000323641 9781000325416 1000325415 9781000321937 1000321932 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed October 19, 2020) |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | 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. |