How We Think They Think: Anthropological Approaches To Cognition, Memory, And Literacy - Softcover

E F Bloch, Maurice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813333741 ISBN 13: 9780813333748

Publisher: Westview Press, 1998

Synopsis

“Maurice Bloch is so ferociously smart that one can always enjoy tangling with his ideas, even when―perhaps especially when―one doesn’t agree with him. This is an important and provocative book.” ―Sherry Ortner Columbia University 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 accessible form for the first time and drawing frequently upon the author’s fieldwork among the Zafimaniry of Madagascar for ethnographic examples, the twelve closely linked essays of How We Think They Think pose provocative challenges not only to conventional cognitive models but to the basic assumptions that underlie much of ethnography. This book will be read with interest by those who study culture and cognition, ethnographic theory and practice, and the peoples and cultures of Africa.

About this title

About the Author:

Maurice E.F. Bloch is professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Westview Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0813333741
• ISBN 13: 9780813333748
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216