Author: Strauss, Claudia ; & Quinn, Naomi
Title: A Cognitive Theory of Cultural Meaning
Description: Cambridge, (1999). Reprint. orig. wrappers. 24x15cm, xii,323 pp. PAPERBACK. Series: Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, 9.. ISBN: 052159541X. Some pencilled underlinings and marginal notes. Good. ¶ Contents: Anthropological resistance; Schema theory and connectionism; Two properties of cultures; Three further properties of culture; Practice and Possibilities: Research on shared task solutions; Research on the pschodynamics of shared understandings; Research on cultural discontinuities; Beyond old oppositions. [" '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" - Publisher's description].

Keywords: 052159541X Ethnopsychology, Connectionism, Cognition, Ethnology, Psychology, Psychological, Anthropology, Culture,