Breaking the Frames
New Guinea or Schneider’s Yapese informants, at another level it is recog- nized (see discussions in Strathern and Stewart 2011 ...
in Mount Hagen in the PNG Highlands where ties with the mother’s brother are important immediate genealogical ties between cross ...
dissolved against the background of viewpoints from other cultures. Still, the idea that mental health is a separate category of ...
rather like a disembodiednomanof the dead person, that is, it has agency and desires and feelings as shown in dreams which the l ...
CHAPTER 6 Retreat of the Social? Where to? AbstractBruce Kapferer, and contributors to his edited volumeRetreat of the Social, s ...
of the door to reductionism. He instances‘economism’as an example, theory that relates everything in the world to economic notio ...
the individual. Other definitions incorporate the social and so obviate his general argument. In his contribution to the volume ...
solution, he notes, is not to obliterate but at least to sideline culture as a kind of background or milieu (p. 62). Another, mo ...
our concept were actually profound. There are no individuals outside of social relations, but social relations always take place ...
CHAPTER 7 Religion and Cognition AbstractCognitive studies have offered an explanation of religion. Important contributions to t ...
in cognition and evolution. Culture and society do not explain themselves in this scheme. Rather they are themselves produced, d ...
human learning that arguesfirst that we are disposed to learn factually based ideas, but second that we somehow have an ability ...
this, the question of what is intuitive versus nonintuitive begins to dissolve away. If learning is customary or institutionaliz ...
bypassing the question of belief as secondary to the worlds of embodied practice and performance, as we have hinted in our earli ...
facilitate a critique of both Sahlins and Obeyesekere but do not help to advance a superior interpretation. Moreover, the cognit ...
chapter turn on looking at complexities in assessing what is to be described as doctrinal or imagistic. The overall effect of hi ...
CHAPTER 8 Language and Culture AbstractWhat is the relationship between language and culture? One argument has to do with whethe ...
us. Essentially this discussion revolves around the same set of categories of thought that appear with the nature versus culture ...
aspecific physical capacity from birth? Is it, in other words, a product of nature or of culture? (And if nature, what made natu ...
features (some shared with other species). The narrow faculty Chomsky says is unique to humans. In this formulation it becomes v ...
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