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A cognitive theory of cultural meaning

Publication Type  Book
Year of Publication  1997
Authors  Strauss, Claudia; Quinn, Naomi
Publisher  Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication  Cambridge
Key Words  Metaphor; Corpus Linguistics
Notes  Common introduction (over 130 pages) followed by three studies by Quinn and one by StraussThe book takes a connectionist approach to anthropology deriving from work on schemas and scenarios.Start with assertion that most anthropologists would subscribe to both competing views of culture:"'cultures' are not bounded, coherent, timeless systems of meanings (as we caution our advanced students) and ... human action rests on networks of often highly stable, pervasive, and motivating assumptions that can be widely shared within social groups while variable between them (as we teach undergraduates in Anthropology 101." (p. 4) --> the problem for anthropology is
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