Anthropology and the Cognitive Challenge

Name: Anthropology and the Cognitive Challenge
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ISBN: 9780521803557

ISBN-10: 0521803551

ISBN-13: 9780521803557

Edition: 2012

Authors: Maurice Bloch

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In this provocative new study one of the world's most distinguished anthropologists proposes that an understanding of cognitive science enriches, rather than threatens, the work of social scientists. Maurice Bloch argues for a naturalist approach to social and cultural anthropology, introducing developments in cognitive sciences such as psychology and neurology and exploring the relevance of these developments for central anthropological concerns: the person or the self, cosmology, kinship, memory and globalisation. Opening with an exploration of the history of anthropology, Bloch shows why and how naturalist approaches were abandoned and argues that these once valid reasons are no longer…

Book details

List price: $71.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/28/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 244
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.21" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

Maurice Bloch is Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His work is unique in that he is both an active field-working anthropologist and a general theoretician. Bloch has been a leading figure among those anthropologists who seek to reintegrate social and anthropological theory with the work of cognitive scientists and prehistorians.




Why social scientists should not avoid cognitive issues



Innateness and social scientists' fears



How anthropology abandoned a naturalist epistemology



The nature/culture wars



Time and the anthropologists



Reconciling social science and cognitive science notions of the 'self'



What goes without saying



Memory