Culture and Inference : : A Trobriand Case Study / / Edwin Hutchins.
This book takes a major step in psychological anthropology by applying new analytic tools from cognitive science to one of the oldest and most vexing anthropological problems: the nature of "primitive" thought. For a decade or more there has been broad agreement within anthropology that cu...
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Hutchins, Edwin, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Culture and Inference : A Trobriand Case Study / Edwin Hutchins. Reprint 2014 Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013] ©1980 1 online resource (143 p.) : illsutrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Cognitive Science Series ; 2 Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Trobriand Land Tenure -- 3. The Model -- 4. Case Analysis -- 5. Uses of the Cultural Code -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes. References. Glossary. Index -- Notes -- References -- Glossary -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star This book takes a major step in psychological anthropology by applying new analytic tools from cognitive science to one of the oldest and most vexing anthropological problems: the nature of "primitive" thought. For a decade or more there has been broad agreement within anthropology that culture might be usefully viewed as a system of tacit rules that constrain the meaningful interpretation of events and serve as a guide to action. However, no one has made a serious attempt to write a cultural grammar that would make such rules explicit. In Culture and Inference Edwin Hutchins makes just such an attempt for one enormously instructive case, the Trobriand Islanders' system of land tenure. Using the propositional network notation developed by Rumeihart and Norman, Hutchins describes native knowledge about land tenure as a set of twelve propositions. Inferences are derived from these propositions by a set of transfer formulas that govern the way in which static knowledge about land tenure can be applied to new disputes. After deriving this descriptive system by extensive observation of the Trobrianders' land courts and by interrogation of litigants, Hutchins provides a test of his grammar by showing how it can be used to simulate decisions in new cases. What is most interesting about these simulations, generally, is that they require all the same logical operations that arise from a careful analysis of Western thought. Looking closely at "primitive" inference in a natural situation, Hutchins finds that Trobriand reasoning is no more primitive than our own. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021) Cognitie. Cognition and culture. Cultuur. Ethnological jurisprudence. Ethnologie juridique. Ethnologie. Ethnology. Geschichte der übrigen Welt. Geschichte der übrigen Welt. Land tenure. Landrechten. Cognition and culture -- Papua New Guinea -- Trobriand Islands. Cross-cultural comparison. Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea -- Trobriand Islands. Land tenure (Primitive law) -- Papua New Guinea -- Trobriand Islands. PSYCHOLOGY / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package 9783110353488 ZDB-23-HCO Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Science eBook Package 9783110353549 ZDB-23-HSP Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 9783110442212 print 9780674418639 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674418660 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674418660 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674418660/original |
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