This Book Brings Together Recent Work By Maurice Bloch Which Explores The Highly Controversial Territory Between The Cognitive And Social Sciences, The Essays Are Of Broad, Theoretical Interest And Aim To Combine Naturalistic Approaches To Cognition With A Recognition And Respect For The Cultural And Historical Specificity Of Ethnography. All The Essays Illustrate Bloch's Characteristic Approach To The Relation Between Anthropology And Cognitive Science, Where Cognitive Science Is Used To Criticize Anthropological Assumptions Concerning Such Key Topics As Religion, Kinship, Belief, Ritual, Symbolism And Art.--book Jacket. Where Did Anthropology Go? : Or The Need For 'human Nature' -- Why Trees, Too, Are Good To Think With : Toward An Anthropology Of The Meaning Of Life -- Questions Not To Ask Of Malagasy Carvings -- Commensality And Poisoning -- What Is Passed On From Parents To Children : A Cross-cultural Investigation -- A Well-disposed Social Anthropologist's Problems With Memes -- Are Religious Beliefs Counter-intuitive? -- Ritual And Deference -- Kinship And Evolved Psychological Dispositions : The Mother's-brother Controversy Reconsidered. Maurice Bloch. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Bloch, Maurice

Oxford, UK ; New York: Berg

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Berg Publishers

London School of Economics monographs on social anthropology, Oxford, 2005

Monographs on social anthropology, v. 75, Oxford UK ; New York, 2005

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

September 15, 2005

xi, 174 pages : 23 cm
"This book brings together recent work by Maurice Bloch which explores the highly controversial territory between the cognitive and social sciences, The essays are of broad, theoretical interest and aim to combine naturalistic approaches to cognition with a recognition and respect for the cultural and historical specificity of ethnography. All the essays illustrate Bloch's characteristic approach to the relation between anthropology and cognitive science, where cognitive science is used to criticize anthropological assumptions concerning such key topics as religion, kinship, belief, ritual, symbolism and art."--Jacket
Includes bibliographical references and index
Where did anthropology go? or, The need for 'human nature' -- Why trees, too, are good to think with : toward an anthropology of the meaning of life -- Questions not to ask of Malagasy carvings -- Commensality and poisoning -- What is passed on from parents to children : a cross-cultural investigation -- A well-disposed social anthropologist's problems with memes -- Are religious beliefs counter-intuitive? -- Ritual and deference -- Kinship and evolved psychological dispositions : the mother's brother controversy reconsidered

En la camisa : "This book brings together recent work by Maurice Bloch which explores the highly controversial territory between the cognitive and social sciences, The essays are of broad, theoretical interest and aim to combine naturalistic approaches to cognition with a recognition and respect for the cultural and historical specificity of ethnography. All the essays illustrate Bloch's characteristic approach to the relation between anthropology and cognitive science, where cognitive science is used to criticize anthropological assumptions concerning such key topics as religion, kinship, belief, ritual, symbolism and art."

2023-06-28