Culture in Mind Cognition, Culture, and the Problem of Meaning

by Shore, Bradd

• ISBN13: 9780195095975
• ISBN10: 0195095979
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780190284398
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-03-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In this exciting new book anthropologist Bradd Shore has created the first study linking multiculturalism to cognitive psychology, exploring the complex relationship between culture in public institutions and in mental representations.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xiii
Jerome Bruner
I THE PROBLEM OF CULTURE IN MIND
Introduction	3	(12)
The Psychic Unity Muddle	15	(27)
Rethinking Culture as Models	42	(33)
II THE COGNITIVE LANDSCAPE OF MODERNITY
Mind Games: Cognitive Baseball	75	(26)
Playing with Rules: Sport at the Borderlands of Time and Space	101	(15)
Interior Furnishings: Scenes from an American Foundational Schema	116	(20)
Technological Trends: The Neuromantic Frame of Mind	136	(31)
III RETHINKING ``PRIMITIVE CLASSIFICATION''
Totem as Practically Reason: Rationality Reconsidered	167	(21)
Kwakiutl Animal Symbolism: Food for Thought	188	(19)
IV DREAMTIME LEARNING
Dreamtime Learning, Inside-Out: The Narrative of the Wawilak Sisters	207	(29)
Dreamtime Learning, Outside-In: Murngin Age-Grading Rites	236	(29)
V THE PROBLEM OF MULTIPLE MODELS
Tropic Landscapes: Alternative Spatial Models in Samoan Culture	265	(19)
When Models Collide: Cultural Origins of Ambivalence	284	(27)
VI CULTURE IN MIND
Culture and the Problem of Meaning	311	(32)
Analogical Transfer and the Work of Culture	343	(31)
Epilogue: The Ethnographic Mind	374	(9)
Bibliography	383	(30)
Index	413