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Cognitive anthropology

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Cognitive anthropology is an approach within cultural anthropology in which scholars seek to explain patterns of shared knowledge, cultural innovation, and transmission over time and space using the methods and theories of the cognitive sciences (especially experimental psychology and evolutionary biology) often through close collaboration with historians, ethnographers, archaeologists, linguists, musicologists and other specialists engaged in the description and interpretation of cultural forms. [1]

18 relations: A. Kimball Romney, Cognitive science, Componential analysis, Cultural anthropology, Cultural consensus theory, Culture, Ethnoscience, Evolutionary biology, Experimental psychology, Innovation, Interpretation (logic), Linguistics, Maurice Bloch, Pragmatics, Roy D'Andrade, Semantics, Syntax, Theory.

A. Kimball Romney

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Cognitive science

Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary, scientific study of the mind and its processes.

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Componential analysis

Componential analysis (feature analysis or contrast analysis) is the analysis of words through structured sets of semantic features, which are given as "present", "absent" or "indifferent with reference to feature".

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Cultural anthropology

Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans.

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Cultural consensus theory

Cultural consensus theory is an (aggregation, data fusion) which supports a framework for the measurement and evaluation of beliefs as cultural; shared to some extent by a group of individuals.

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Culture

Culture is the social behavior and norms found in human societies.

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Ethnoscience

Ethnoscience has been defined as an attempt "to reconstitute what serves as science for others, their practices of looking after themselves and their bodies, their botanical knowledge, but also their forms of classification, of making connections, etc." (Augé, 1999: 118).

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Evolutionary biology

Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes that produced the diversity of life on Earth, starting from a single common ancestor.

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Experimental psychology

Experimental psychology refers to work done by those who apply experimental methods to psychological study and the processes that underlie it.

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Innovation

Innovation can be defined simply as a "new idea, device or method".

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Interpretation (logic)

An interpretation is an assignment of meaning to the symbols of a formal language.

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Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language, and involves an analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context.

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Maurice Bloch

Maurice Bloch (born 1939 in Caen, Calvados, France) is a British anthropologist.

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Pragmatics

Pragmatics is a subfield of linguistics and semiotics that studies the ways in which context contributes to meaning.

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Roy D'Andrade

Roy Goodwin D'Andrade (November 6, 1931 – October 20, 2016) was one of the founders of cognitive anthropology.

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Semantics

Semantics (from σημαντικός sēmantikós, "significant") is the linguistic and philosophical study of meaning, in language, programming languages, formal logics, and semiotics.

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Syntax

In linguistics, syntax is the set of rules, principles, and processes that govern the structure of sentences in a given language, usually including word order.

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Theory

A theory is a contemplative and rational type of abstract or generalizing thinking, or the results of such thinking.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_anthropology

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