A Cognitive Theory of Cultural Meaning |
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| Contribution by:
| Strauss, Claudia J.
Quinn, Naomi
Lucy, John
Fessler, Daniel
Johnson, Allen W.
Lebra, Takie Sugiyama
Whitehead, Harriet |
| Author:
| Strauss, Claudia J.
Quinn, Naomi |
| Series title: | Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-59541-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1998 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $54.95 |
Book Description:
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Anthropologists must draw on psychological theories of cognition in order to understand how culture is learnt, and shapes everyday actions and decision. The authors offer an approach, based on psychological theories of cultural meaning, illustrating it with original research on understandings of marriage, and success, in the United States.
Anthropologists must draw on psychological theories of cognition in order to understand how culture is learnt, and shapes everyday actions and decision. The authors offer an approach, based on psychological theories of cultural meaning, illustrating it with original research on understandings of marriage, and success, in the United States.