Cognitive ethnology
Cognitive anthropology or cognitive anthropology is a discipline of anthropology (Ethnology), dedicated to the study of culturally influenced imagination and thoughts of ethnic groups and indigenous peoples concerned. Corresponding thought schemes and interpretation patterns of an ethnic group can be understood as a collective identity . Early basic assumptions in cognitive ethnology were that culture was shared knowledge, that knowledge was in the form of a cultural grammar, and that language offered access to mental phenomena.
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literature
Introductions, theories and methods:
- Andrea Bender : Cognitive Ethnology. In: Bettina Beer , Hans Fischer (ed.): Ethnology: Introduction and overview. Reimer, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-496-02844-4 , pp. 287-308.
- Waltraud Kokot : Cognitive Ethnology. In: Hans Fischer (ed.): Ethnology: An introduction. Reimer, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-496-00423-1 , pp. 367-382.
Applied cognitive ethnology:
- Andrea Bender, Sieghard Beller: The world of thinking: cognitive unity, cultural diversity. Huber, 2012, ISBN 978-3-456-85224-9 .
- Anett C. Oelschlägel : Plural World Interpretations: The Example of the Tyva of South Siberia. Sec, Fürstenberg / Havel 2013, ISBN 978-3-942883-13-9 .
- Ralf Ingo Reimann: The shaman sees a witch - the ethnologist sees nothing: human information processing and ethnological research. Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1998, ISBN 3-593-36115-9 , pp. 48–73: Chapter 3 Cognitive Anthropology (doctoral thesis University of Hamburg 1996; limited page previews in the Google book search).