A Cognitive Theory of Cultural Meaning

Claudia (Duke University, North Carolina) Strauss, Naomi (Duke University, North Carolina) Quinn

Cambridge University Press, 1998

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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.

ISBN-13
9780521594097
ISBN-10
052159409X
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1998
Publication date
1998-01-13
Pages
336
Dimensions
235x155x26
Weight
650