ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE COGNITIVE CHALLENGE

In this provocative new study one of the world's most distinguished anthropologists proposes that an understanding of cognitive scie nce enriches, rather than threatens, the work of social scientists. Maurice Bloch argues for a naturalist approach to social and cul tural anthropology, introducing developments in cognitive sciences such as psychology and neurology and exploring the relevance of t hese developments for central anthropological concerns: the person or the self, cosmology, kinship, memory and globalisation. Openin g with a...[Read more]