Cultural models
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He has published numerous articles on kinship, social organization, and cognitive topics; a collection of his kinship work is forthcoming (U of Illinois Press). He guest edited a special issue of
Anthropological Theory on Kinship (2001, Vol. 1, No. 2) and edited Sydney H. Gould's (posthumous)A New System for the Formal Analysis of Kinship (University Press of America). He is the author ofPlastic Glasses and Church Fathers; Semantic Extension from the Ethnoscience Tradition (Oxford 1996).
Abstract
Kecskes: In your latest works and a recent book proposal you say that you do not consider culture and cultural models intrinsic parts of an individual's psyche and do not see them as filled-in specifications for actual behavior. You claim that they form, instead, scenarios of varying degrees of abstraction that can be applied by an individual to some particular situation. Could you elaborate on this idea, please? How do the individual and collective relate to each other in this approach?
About the author
He has published numerous articles on kinship, social organization, and cognitive topics; a collection of his kinship work is forthcoming (U of Illinois Press). He guest edited a special issue of Anthropological Theory on Kinship (2001, Vol. 1, No. 2) and edited Sydney H. Gould's (posthumous) A New System for the Formal Analysis of Kinship (University Press of America). He is the author of Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers; Semantic Extension from the Ethnoscience Tradition (Oxford 1996).
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