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Anthropologists as Cognitive Scientists
Author(s) -
Astuti Rita,
Bloch Maurice
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
topics in cognitive science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.191
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1756-8765
pISSN - 1756-8757
DOI - 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2012.01191.x
Subject(s) - homo sapiens , cognition , unitary state , ethnography , sociology , epistemology , anthropology , cognitive science , anthropological linguistics , evolutionary anthropology , psychology , philosophy , clinical linguistics , linguistics , neuroscience , applied linguistics , political science , law
Anthropology combines two quite different enterprises: the ethnographic study of particular people in particular places and the theorizing about the human species. As such, anthropology is part of cognitive science in that it contributes to the unitary theoretical aim of understanding and explaining the behavior of the animal species Homo sapiens. This article draws on our own research experience to illustrate that cooperation between anthropology and the other sub‐disciplines of cognitive science is possible and fruitful, but it must proceed from the recognition of anthropology’s unique epistemology and methodology.