25/01/2008 by Jon.

Dan Sperber has been a prominent name in cognitive anthropology since the 70s. He has an extensive website with bibliographies and links to fulltext versions of many of his articles: <p>http://www.dan.sperber.com/  

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25/01/2008 by Jon.

I’m planning to put all the resources for my cognitive anthropology lectures online here. Please feel free to leave comments on the posts, including questions about the material - especially questions may be helpful for others. Also, feel free to email me on [jrm35].  Regards,  Jon 

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25/01/2008 by Jon.

Download lecture files:

Introduction to Cognitive Anthropology - handout 

Introduction to Cognitive Anthropology - PP presentation    

This lecture introduced cognitive anthropology by asking how cognitive anthropologists distinguish themselves from other anthropologists and from psychologists. Cognitive psychologists argue that the standard model of cognition in anthropology is usually implicit, is vague and ambiguous, and is in conflict with scientific models of cognition on many points. But while anthropologists tend to be  mind-blind, cognitive anthropologists argue, psychologists are context-blind. The attempt to exclude culturally variable context from experiments prevents psychologists from providing what cognitive anthropology promises: an ethnographic conception of the mind.

The cognitive anthropological synthesis aspires to combine the scientific rigour of psychology with the comparative, context rich perspective of anthropology. 

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25/01/2008 by Jon.

Download:  S4 Cognitive Anthropology Reading List. 

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