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Cognitive foundations of natural history : towards an anthropology of science
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ISBN: 0521372933 Year: 1990 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press


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Fondements de l'histoire naturelle : pour une anthropologie de la science
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ISBN: 2870271808 9782870271803 Year: 1986 Volume: 4, no. spécial Publisher: Bruxelles : Ed. Complexe,

In gods we trust : the evolutionary landscape of religion
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ISBN: 9780195178036 9780195149302 0195178033 0195149300 0199850119 9786610845118 1280845112 0198034059 Year: 2002 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press

Cognitive foundations of natural history : towards an anthropology of science
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ISBN: 0521438713 Year: 1993 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press,

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L'État islamique est une révolution : suivi de Notes de terrain : la bataille de Kudilah
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ISBN: 9791020903983 Year: 2016 Publisher: Paris: Les Liens qui libèrent,

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Folkbiology
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ISBN: 0262133490 026263192X 0262279614 0585335990 9780262279611 9780585335995 9780262133494 9780262631921 Year: 1999 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press

The native mind and the cultural construction of nature
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ISBN: 9780262134897 0262134896 0262514087 9786612099373 128209937X 0262267411 1435631749 0262260344 9780262267410 9781435631748 6612099372 9780262514088 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press

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Surveys show that our growing concern over protecting the environment is accompanied by a diminishing sense of human contact with nature. Many people have little commonsense knowledge about nature - are unable, for example, to identify local plants and trees or describe how these plants and animals interact. Researchers report dwindling knowledge of nature even in smaller, nonindustrialized societies. In The Native Mind and the Cultural Construction of Nature, Scott Atran and Douglas Medin trace the cognitive consequences of this loss of knowledge. Drawing on nearly two decades of cross-cultural and developmental research, they examine the relationship between how people think about the natural world and how they act on it and how these two phenomena are affected by cultural differences. These studies, which involve a series of targeted comparisons among cultural groups living in the same environment and engaged in the same activities, reveal critical universal aspects of mind as well as equally critical cultural differences. Atran and Medin find that, despite a base of universal processes, the cultural differences in understandings of nature are associated with significant differences in environmental decision making as well as intergroup conflict and stereotyping stemming from these differences. The book includes two intensive case studies, one focusing on agro-forestry among Maya Indians and Spanish speakers in Mexico and Guatemala and the other on resource conflict between Native-American and European-American fishermen in Wisconsin. The Native Mind and the Cultural Construction of Nature offers new perspectives on general theories of human categorization, reasoning, decision making, and cognitive development.


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La transmission
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ISBN: 2213011524 9782213011523 Year: 1982 Volume: 3-4 Publisher: Bruxelles: Complexe,

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La vérité
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ISBN: 2870271107 9782870271100 Year: 1983 Volume: 7-8 Publisher: Bruxelles: Complexe,

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Plants of the Petén Itza' Maya.
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ISBN: 0915703556 0915703564 9780915703562 9780915703555 Year: 2004 Volume: 38 Publisher: Ann Arbor University of Michigan. Museum of anthropology

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