The Development of Cognitive Anthropology

In an historical account of the growth and development of the field of cognitive anthropology, Roy D'Andrade examines how cultural knowledge is organised within and between human minds. He begins by examining the research carried out during the l950s and l960s which was concerned with how different cultures classify kinship relationships and the natural environment, and then traces the development of more complex and sophisticated cognitive theories of classification in anthropology which took place in the l970s and l980s.Roy G. D'Andrade is the author of 'The Development of Cognitive Anthropology', published 1995 under ISBN 9780521453707 and ISBN 0521453704.