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Anthropology and the Cognitive Challenge (New Departures in Anthropology) by Bloch, Maurice is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is Anthropology and the Cognitive Challenge (New Departures in Anthropology) about?
In this provocative new study one of the world's most distinguished anthropologists proposes that an understanding of cognitive science enriches, rather than threatens, the work of social scientists. Maurice Bloch argues for a naturalist approach to social and cultural anthropology, introducing developments in cognitive sciences such as psychology and neurology and exploring the relevance of these developments for central anthropological concerns: the person or the self, cosmology, kinship, memo
Who reads Anthropology and the Cognitive Challenge (New Departures in Anthropology)?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Bloch, Maurice
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521006156
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Psychology, Anthropology, Social Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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