1st Edition
Culture as a System How We Know the Meaning and Significance of What We Do and Say
By David B. Kronenfeld
Copyright 2018
142 Pages
by
Routledge
142 Pages
by
Routledge
142 Pages
by
Routledge
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A particular culture is associated with a particular community, and thus has a social dimension. But how does culture operate and how is it to be defined? Is it to be taken as the behavioral repertoire of members of that community, as the products of their behavior, or as the shared mental content that produces the behavior? Is it to be viewed as a coherent whole or only a collection of disparate... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Semantics and Pragmatics 3. Linguistic Relativity 4. Culture as Shared Differentially Distributed Pragmatic Knowledge 5. Shared Cultural Knowledge as Defining Social Groups 6. Prototype-Extension 7. Shared Differentially Distributed Cognitive Structures 8. Cultural Models of Action 9. Flexibility and Variability 10. Practical Implications for Analysis 11. Conclusion
Biography
David B. Kronenfeld is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Anthropology at University of California, Riverside, USA.
