Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
These essays by one of anthropology's most original theorists consider such fundamental questions as: Is cognition language-based? How reliable a guide to memory are people's narratives about themselves? What connects the ?social recalling? studied by anthropologists to the ?autobiographical memory? studied by psychologists? Now gathered in accessi
Synopsis
How We Think They Think focuses on issues of cognition, memory, and literacy as they relate to anthropology. It deals in different ways with what is a central concern: the relation between what is explicit and conscious and what is inexplicit or unconscious, but perhaps more fundamental.