The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition / / Michael Tomasello.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Tomasello, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Bridging the gap between evolutionary theory and cultural psychology, Michael Tomasello argues that the roots of the human capacity for symbol-based culture are based in a cluster of uniquely human cognitive capacities. These include capacities for understanding that others have intentions of their own, and for imitating, not just what someone else does, but what someone else has intended to do. Tomasello further describes with authority and ingenuity how these capacities work over evolutionary and historical time to create the kind of cultural artifacts and settings within which each new generation of children develops.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 A Puzzle and a Hypothesis -- 2 Biological and Cultural Inheritance -- 3 Joint Attention and Cultural Learning -- 4 Linguistic Communication and Symbolic Representation -- 5 Linguistic Constructions and Event Cognition -- 6 Discourse and Representational Redescription -- 7 Cultural Cognition -- References -- Index