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toward a convergence of cognitive and symbolic anthropology
Author(s) -
COLBY BENJAMIN N.,
FERNANDEZ JAMES W.,
KRONENFELD DAVID B.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1981.8.3.02a00020
Subject(s) - anthropology , sociocultural anthropology , four field approach , sociology , cognition , anthropology of art , applied anthropology , social anthropology , field (mathematics) , anthropological linguistics , epistemology , linguistics , psychology , history , philosophy , applied linguistics , clinical linguistics , mathematics , contemporary art , neuroscience , performance art , pure mathematics , art history
This review describes the conditions that have established the subfields of cognitive anthropology and symbolic anthropology as major clusterings of anthropologists. It discusses the influences in anthropology as well as in related areas of cognitive science, linguistics, and literary criticism that can bring the two subfields closer together. It also looks at future directions of study and suggests some of the characteristics that might be included in a single, unifying theory. [cognitive anthropology, symbolic anthropology, history of anthropology, method, theory, review of field, social anthropology]