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Author : Marvin D. Loflin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110800055
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Discourse and Inference in Cognitive Anthropology written by Marvin D. Loflin and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. Yamaguchi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137274824
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Approaches to Language, Culture, and Cognition written by M. Yamaguchi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition aims to bring cognitive linguistics and linguistic anthropology closer together, calling for further investigations of language and culture from cognitively-informed perspectives against the backdrop of the current trend of linguistic anthropology.
Author : Edwin Hutchins
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674179707
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (797 download)
Download or read book Culture and Inference written by Edwin Hutchins and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the changing of seasons and describes how plants and animals adapt to and prepare for these changes.
Author : Janet Giltrow
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501504681
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Pragmatic Turn in Law written by Janet Giltrow and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-06-12 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In legal interpretation, where does meaning come from? Law is made from language, yet law, unlike other language-related disciplines, has not so far experienced its "pragmatic turn" towards inference and the construction of meaning. This book investigates to what extent a pragmatically based view of l linguistic and legal interpretation can lead to new theoretical views for law and, in addition, to practical consequences in legal decision-making. With its traditional emphasis on the letter of the law and the immutable stability of a text as legal foundation, law has been slow to take the pragmatic perspective: namely, the language-user 's experience and activity in making meaning. More accustomed to literal than to pragmatic notions of meaning, that is, in the text rather than constructed by speakers and hearers the disciplines of law may be culturally resistant to the pragmatic turn. By bringing together the different but complementary perspectives of pragmaticians and lawyers, this book addresses the issue of to what extent legal meaning can be productively analysed as deriving from resources beyond the text, beyond the letter of the law. This collection re-visits the feasibility of the notion of literal meaning for legal interpretation and, at the same time, the feasibility of pragmatic meaning for law. Can explications of pragmatic meaning support court actions in the same way concepts of literal meaning have traditionally supported statutory interpretations and court judgements? What are the consequences of a user-based view of language for the law, in both its practices of interpretation and its definition of itself as a field? Readers will find in this collection means of approaching such questions, and promising routes for inquiry into the genre- and field-specific characteristics of inference in law. In many respects, the problem of literal vs. pragmatic meaning confined to the text vs. reaching beyond it will appear to parallel the dichotomy in law between textualism and intentionalism. There are indeed illuminating connections between the pair of linguistic terms and the more publicly controversial legal ones. But the parallel is not exact, and the linguistic dichotomy is in any case anterior to the legal one. Even as linguistic-pragmatic investigation may serve legal domains, the legal questions themselves point back to central conditions of all linguistic meaning.
Author : Arthur B. Powell
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791433515
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (335 download)
Download or read book Ethnomathematics written by Arthur B. Powell and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the emerging field of ethnomathematics from a critical perspective, challenging particular ways in which Eurocentrism permeates mathematics education and mathematics in general.
Author : Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393708543
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (937 download)
Download or read book Making Classrooms Better: 50 Practical Applications of Mind, Brain, and Education Science written by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical, classroom-oriented guide to best-practice teaching. Learning specialist Leslie Hart once wrote that designing educational experiences without knowledge of the brain is like designing a glove without knowledge of the hand. Making Classrooms Better takes this concept a step further, building from general knowledge of brain-based education science and current educational research to offer specific suggestions for how teachers can improve student learning outcomes. Covering a range of subjects, from creating an optimal classroom climate to maximizing metacognitive skill development, this well-researched, state-of-the-art guide is an essential resource for highly effective practices that teachers, administrators, and curriculum planners can easily use. The first half of the book provides a practical overview of teaching from a Mind, Brain, and Education perspective through an understanding of the intersection of the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and pedagogy. The second half shares 50 evidence-based classroom “best practices” that have a proven positive impact on student learning outcomes and explains why they work.
Author : Frederick J. Newmeyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521375832
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)
Download or read book Language written by Frederick J. Newmeyer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to current research in all branches of the field of linguistics, from syntactic theory to ethnography of speaking, from signed language to the mental lexicon. This volume concentrates on sociolinguistics and allied fields.
Author : Christoph Antweiler
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785330942
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Our Common Denominator written by Christoph Antweiler and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the politicization of anthropology in the 1970s, most anthropologists have been reluctant to approach the topic of universals—that is, phenomena that occur regularly in all known human societies. In this volume, Christoph Antweiler reasserts the importance of these cross-cultural commonalities for anthropological research and for life and co-existence beyond the academy. The question presented here is how anthropology can help us approach humanity in its entirety, understanding the world less as a globe, with an emphasis on differences, but as a planet, from a vantage point open to commonalities.
Author : Wolfgang Burghardt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110837536
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Text Processing / Textverarbeitung written by Wolfgang Burghardt and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Text Processing / Textverarbeitung".
Author : Maurice Bloch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521006155
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Anthropology and the Cognitive Challenge written by Maurice Bloch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world's most distinguished anthropologists proposes that cognitive science enriches, rather than threatens, the work of social scientists.
Author : J. W. Fernandez
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691656657
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Bwiti written by J. W. Fernandez and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We cannot, the author argues, adequately understand the religious imagination without knowing the historical, social, and cultural matrices from which it arises. Accordingly, his book explores the Fang culture of Gabon as a set of contexts from which emerges the Bwiti religion. In addition to experience with missionary Christianity, Bwiti uses a great reservoir of images and ideas from its own past. Professor Fernandez analyszes how they are recreated into a compelling religious universe, an equatorial microcosm. Part I, a detailed ethnographic account of Fang culture after colonial encounter, addresses the attendant problems. The author discusses the European influence on the self-concept of the Fang, family life and kinship, and political and economic relationships. Part II analyzes in greater detail the religious implications of European administration and missionary efforts. In Part III the author shows how the malaise and increasing isolation of part of Fang culture achieve some assuagement of the Bwiti religion, which seeks a reconciliation of the past and present. James W. Fernandez is Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and author of many studies in this discipline. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Frans H. van Eemeren
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110869179
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Analysis and Practices written by Frans H. van Eemeren and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wim van Binsbergen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136137866
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Theoretical Explorations in African Religion written by Wim van Binsbergen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1985. This collection of papers on theoretical and methodological perspectives in the study of African religion is the outcome of a conference which the editors were asked to convene on behalf of the African Studies Centre, Leiden, in December 1979.
Author : Susan Greenwood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317517210
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Magical Consciousness written by Susan Greenwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a mind think magically? The research documented in this book is one answer that allows the disciplines of anthropology and neurobiology to come together to reveal a largely hidden dynamic of magic. Magic gets to the very heart of some theoretical and methodological difficulties encountered in the social and natural sciences, especially to do with issues of rationality. This book examines magic head-on, not through its instrumental aspects but as an orientation of consciousness. Magical consciousness is affective, associative and synchronistic, shaped through individual experience within a particular environment. This work focuses on an in-depth case study using the anthropologist’s own experience gained through years of anthropological fieldwork with British practitioners of magic. As an ethnographic view, it is an intimate study of the way in which the cognitive architecture of a mind engages the emotions and imagination in a pattern of meanings related to childhood experiences, spiritual communications and the environment. Although the detail of the involvement in magical consciousness presented here is necessarily specific, the central tenets of modus operandi is common to magical thought in general, and can be applied to cross-cultural analyses to increase understanding of this ubiquitous human phenomenon.
Author : George W Barlow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000240215
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Sociobiology: Beyond Nature/nurture? written by George W Barlow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To most biologists, sociobiology represents the concept of strict Darwinian individual selection married to an analytical application of ecological principles and brought to bear on social behavior in an unusually exciting and productive way. Joining the biologists are a small number of social scientists. But there are radically divergent views as to how the field should be delimited, and sociobiology is one of the most widely discussed fields in biology and anthropology today. The symposium on which this book is based was arranged by a biologist and an anthropologist. The participants, leaders in their fields, ably present contrasting and responsible views on current issues. This is the first collection of essays on sociobiology in which opposing views are aired. It is an exciting, timely book and an important historical document.
Author : Amos Rapoport
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110819058
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Mutual Interaction of People and Their Built Environment written by Amos Rapoport and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sema Topano
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9788180690242
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Musical Culture of the Munda Tribe written by Sema Topano and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Focus Is On Musical Culture Of The Munda Tribe Of Chottaagpur Plateau Of Middle Eastern India. It Contextualizes The Music And Dance With In The Physical Landscape, Its Flora And Fauna, The Life Cycle, Life Style, Daily Functions And The Cosmology And Mythology. Has 6 Parts-Munda Tradition Of Music And Dance-Journey Through The Stages Of Life The Environment And Tribal Life-The Social World And The Philosophy Of Life Economic Pursuit And Political History. Welcome Addition To The Critical Literatures On The Mundas.
