Explaining Culture : A Naturalistic Approach

Dan Sperber

ISBN 10: 0631200452 / ISBN 13: 9780631200451

Editore: Wiley & Sons, Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Oxford Nov 1996, 1996

Neuware - Ideas, Dan Sperber argues, may be contagious. They may invade whole populations. In the process, the people, their environment, and the ideas themselves are being transformed. To explain culture is to describe the causes and the effects of this contagion of ideas. This book will be read by all those with an interest in the impact of the cognitive revolution on our understanding of culture. Codice articolo 9780631200451

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Ideas, Dan Sperber argues, may be contagious. They may invade whole populations. In the process, the people, their environment, and the ideas themselves are being transformed. To explain culture is to describe the causes and the effects of this contagion of ideas. This book will be read by all those with an interest in the impact of the cognitive revolution on our understanding of culture.

Informazioni sull'autore: <b>Dan Sperber</b> is Directeur de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. He has been visiting Professor at Princeton University, The London School of Economics and the University of Michigan. He is author of <i>Rethinking Symbolism</i>, <i>On Anthropological Knowledge</i> and, with Deirdre Wilson,<i> Relevance: Communication and Cogntion</i> (1995).

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Titolo: Explaining Culture : A Naturalistic Approach
Casa editrice: Wiley & Sons, Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Oxford Nov 1996
Data di pubblicazione: 1996
Legatura: Taschenbuch
Condizione: Neu