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A full understanding of human action requires an understanding of what motivates people to do what they do. For too many years studies of motivation and of culture have drawn from different theoretical paradigms. Typically, human motivation has been modelled on animal behaviour, while culture has been described as pure knowledge or symbol. The result has been insufficient appreciation of the role of culture in human motivation and a truncated view of culture as disembodied knowledge. In this volume, anthropologists have attempted a different approach, seeking to integrate knowledge, desire, and action in a single explanatory framework. This research builds upon recent work in cognitive anthropology on cultural models, that is, shared cognitive schemas through which human realities are constructed and interpreted, while also drawing upon insights from developmental psychology, psychoanalytic theory, and social theory. Most of the research described here was conducted in the United States and deals with some of the pressing concerns - romance, marriage, parenthood, and success - of women and men from different class and ethnic backgrounds. A study of gender roles in Mexico provides comparative cross-cultural data. Several of the chapters deal with oppressive social ideologies, exploring cultural models of gender and class. The careful, in-depth case studies and innovative methods of discourse analysis used here turn up findings about the relation of ideology to people's thought and action that challenge any kind of simple social determinism.

Culture --- Ethnopsychology --- Motivation (Psychology) --- Ethnopsychologie --- Motivation (Psychologie) --- Congresses. --- Congresses --- Congrès --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Social aspects --- Addresses, essays, lectures --- Culture - Congresses. --- Motivation (Psychology) - Congresses. --- Ethnopsychology - Congresses. --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology

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'Culture' and 'meaning' are central to anthropology, but anthropologists do not agree on what they are. Claudia Strauss and Naomi Quinn propose a new theory of cultural meaning, one that gives priority to the way people's experiences are internalized. Drawing on 'connectionist' or 'neural network' models as well as other psychological theories, they argue that cultural meanings are not fixed or limited to static groups, but neither are they constantly revised and contested. Their approach is illustrated by original research on understandings of marriage and ideas of success in the United States.

Cognitive psychology --- Philosophical anthropology --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Cognition and culture --- Connectionism --- Ethnopsychology --- #SBIB:316.7C122 --- #SBIB:39A3 --- Connexionism --- Cognition --- Cultuursociologie: overtuigingen, waarden en houdingen --- Antropologie: geschiedenis, theorie, wetenschap (incl. grondleggers van de antropologie als wetenschap) --- Congresses --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Ethnopsychology - Congresses. --- Cognition and culture - Congresses. --- Connectionism - Congresses --- Ethnopsychology - Congresses --- Cognition and culture - Congresses --- Connaissance et culture --- Connectionnisme --- Ethnopsychologie

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In an historical account of the growth and development of the field of cognitive anthropology, Roy D'Andrade examines how cultural knowledge is organised within and between human minds. He begins by examining the research carried out during the l950s and l960s which was concerned with how different cultures classify kinship relationships and the natural environment, and then traces the development of more complex and sophisticated cognitive theories of classification in anthropology which took place in the l970s and l980s. In an analysis of more recent developments, the author considers work involving cultural models, emotion, motivation and action. He concludes with a summary of the theoretical perspective of cognitive anthropology.

Cognitive psychology --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Cognition and culture --- Ethnopsychology --- Cross-cultural psychology --- Ethnic groups --- Ethnic psychology --- Folk-psychology --- Indigenous peoples --- National psychology --- Psychological anthropology --- Psychology, Cross-cultural --- Psychology, Ethnic --- Psychology, National --- Psychology, Racial --- Race psychology --- Psychology --- National characteristics --- Culture and cognition --- Cognition --- Culture --- Ethnophilosophy --- Socialization --- Cognition and culture. --- Ethnopsychology. --- Cognition et culture --- Ethnopsychologie --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology

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In each connection with new cultural contexts a new hybrid state of cultural adaptation is constructed enabling people to adjust to new conditions by creating innovative solutions for the self. This book aims to provide a brief presentation of innovative cultural psychological theory of proculturation reflecting and oriented on the understanding of semiotic and developmental dynamics of higher mental phenomena while engaging alien signs through intercultural communication. The exploration and theoretical understanding of developmental dynamics (such as self and identity construction) of people who live in immigration or multicultural, or even multi-ethnic societies, the research builds its new focus in contrasts with the acculturation theories currently present in social psychology. The theory of proculturation has been built in opposition to cross-cultural psychological theories as well as mainstream theories of acculturation research dominated by bidimensional theoretical models. Instead, this theory is constructed based on theoretical explorations which are rooted in cultural semiotics and developmental psychological paradigm on human psychology.

Semiotics --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Social psychology --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- gedrag (mensen) --- psychologie --- filosofie --- semiotiek --- interculturele communicatie --- existentialisme --- Psychology. --- Social psychology. --- Ethnopsychology. --- Semiotics. --- Phenomenology. --- Behavioral Sciences and Psychology. --- Cultural Psychology. --- Cross-Cultural Psychology. --- Theoretical Psychology. --- Comunicació intercultural --- Psicologia social --- Cultura

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The papers in this volume, a multidisciplinary collaboration of anthropologists, linguists, and psychologists, explore the ways in which cultural knowledge is organized and used in everyday language and understanding. Employing a variety of methods, which rely heavily on linguistic data, the authors offer analyses of domains of knowledge ranging across the physical, social, and psychological worlds, and reveal the importance of tacit, presupposed knowledge in the conduct of everyday life. The authors argue that cultural knowledge is organized in 'cultural models' - storylike chains of prototypical events that unfold in simplified worlds - and explore the nature and role of these models. They demonstrate that cultural knowledge may take either proposition-schematic or image-schematic form, each enabling the performance of different kinds of cognitive tasks. Metaphor and metonymy are shown to have special roles in the construction of cultural models. The authors also demonstrates that some widely applicable cultural models recur nested within other, more special-purpose models. Finally, it is shown that shared models play a critical role in thinking, allowing humans to master, remember, and use the vast amount of knowledge required in everyday life. This innovative collection will appeal to anthropologists, linguists, psychologists, philosophers, students of artificial intelligence, and other readers interested in the processes of everyday human understanding.

Cognition and culture. --- 316.77 --- #SBIB:309H518 --- 316.77 Communicatiesociologie --- Communicatiesociologie --- Verbale communicatie: sociologie, antropologie, sociolinguistiek --- Cognition and culture --- Language and culture --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Culture and cognition --- Cognition --- Ethnophilosophy --- Ethnopsychology --- Socialization --- Cognitive psychology --- Psycholinguistics --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Language and culture. --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology