"Cognitive anthropology is an approach within cultural anthropology and biological anthropology in which scholars seek to explain patterns of shared knowledge, cultural innovation, and transmission over time and space using the methods and theories of the cognitive sciences."
The study of thought processes and mental structures in human cultures, including perception, memory, and language.
Cognition: The mental processes involved in acquiring, processing, and organizing information.
Culture: The shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts that characterize a group or society.
Language: A system of communication using sounds, gestures, or written symbols that enables people to express and understand their thoughts, feelings, and experiences.
Perception: The process by which sensory information is organized and interpreted by the brain.
Memory: The mental capacity to encode, store, and retrieve information.
Attention: The ability to selectively focus on certain aspects of information while ignoring others.
Emotion: The complex psychological state that involves a subjective experience, physiological arousal, and behavioral expression.
Social cognition: The mental processes involved in perceiving, understanding, and responding to the social world.
Theory of mind: The ability to attribute mental states to oneself and others, and to understand that others have beliefs, desires, intentions, and emotions that may differ from one's own.
Metaphors: The use of one concept or domain to understand another concept or domain.
Narratives: The stories people tell to make sense of their experiences and convey them to others.
Myths: The traditional stories usually involving supernatural beings or events that explain the origins of the world and the values and beliefs of a culture.
"...often through close collaboration with historians, ethnographers, archaeologists, linguists, musicologists, and other specialists engaged in the description and interpretation of cultural forms."
"...using the methods and theories of the cognitive sciences (especially experimental psychology and cognitive psychology)."
"Cognitive anthropology is concerned with what people from different groups know and how that implicit knowledge, in the sense of what they think subconsciously, changes the way people perceive and relate to the world around them."
"...patterns of shared knowledge, cultural innovation, and transmission over time and space."
"Cognitive anthropology is an approach within cultural anthropology..."
"Cognitive anthropology is an approach within biological anthropology..."
"...historians, ethnographers, archaeologists, linguists, musicologists, and other specialists engaged in the description and interpretation of cultural forms."
"...scholars seek to explain patterns of shared knowledge, cultural innovation..."
"...scholars seek to explain patterns of shared knowledge, cultural innovation, and transmission over time and space..."
"...using the methods and theories of the cognitive sciences (especially experimental psychology)..."
"...using the methods and theories of the cognitive sciences (especially cognitive psychology)..."
"...implicit knowledge, in the sense of what they think subconsciously..."
"...changes the way people perceive..."
"...changes the way people relate to the world around them."
"...seek to explain patterns of shared knowledge..."
"...collaboration with historians, ethnographers, archaeologists, linguists, musicologists, and other specialists engaged in the description and interpretation of cultural forms."
"...through close collaboration with historians, ethnographers, archaeologists, linguists, musicologists, and other specialists engaged in the description and interpretation of cultural forms."
"Cognitive anthropology is concerned with what people from different groups know..."
"...implicit knowledge, in the sense of what they think subconsciously..."