A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology offers a comprehensive overview of the development of cognitive anthropology from its inception to the present day and presents recent findings in the areas of theory, methodology, and field research in twenty-nine key essays by leading scholars.* Demonstrates the importance of cognitive anthropology as an early constituent of the cognitive sciences* Examines how culturally shared and complex cognitive systems work, how they are structured, how they differ from one culture to another, how they are learned and passed on* Explains how cultural (or collective) vs. individual knowledge distinguishes cognitive anthropology from cognitive psychology* Examines recent theories and methods for studying cognition in real-world scenarios* Contains twenty-nine key essays by leading names in the field

Notes on Contributors viiiAcknowledgments xviIntroduction 1PART I History of Cognitive Anthropology; Nature and Types of Cultural Knowledge Structures 91 A History of Cognitive Anthropology 11B. G. Blount2 The History of the Cultural Models School Reconsidered: A Paradigm Shift in Cognitive Anthropology 30Naomi Quinn3 The Cognitive Context of Cognitive Anthropology 47Jürg Wassmann, Christian Kluge, and Dominik Albrecht4 The Limits of the Habitual: Shifting Paradigms for Language and Thought 61Janet Dixon Keller5 Types of Collective Representations: Cognition, Mental Architecture, and Cultural Knowledge 82Giovanni Bennardo and David B. Kronenfeld6 Personal Knowledge and Collective Representations 102John B. GatewoodPART II Methodologies 1157 How to Collect Data that Warrant Analysis 117W. Penn Handwerker8 Data, Method, and Interpretation in Cognitive Anthropology 131James Boster9 Multi-Item Scales and Cognitive Ethnography 153Kateryna Maltseva and Roy D'Andrade10 Consensus Analysis 171Stephen P. Borgatti and Daniel S. Halgin11 Narrative, Mind, and Culture 191Benjamin N. Colby12 Simulation (and Modeling) 210Michael Fischer and David B. KronenfeldPART III Cognitive Structures of Cultural Domains 22713 Mathematical Representation of Cultural Constructs 229Dwight Read14 Kinship Theory and Cognitive Theory in Anthropology 254F. K. L. Chit Hlaing (F. K. Lehman)15 Numerical Cognition and Ethnomathematics 270Andrea Bender and Sieghard Beller16 "Indigenous Knowledge" and the Understanding of Cultural Cognition: The Contribution of Studies of Environmental Knowledge Systems 290Roy Ellen17 Emotions, Motivation, and Behavior in Cognitive Anthropology 314E. N. Anderson18 Social Networks, Cognition, and Culture 331Douglas R. WhitePART IV Cognitive Anthropology and Other Disciplines 35519 Culture and Cognition: The Role of Cognitive Anthropology in Anthropology and the Cognitive Sciences 357Norbert Ross and Douglas L. Medin20 Cultural Models, Power, and Hegemony 376Halvard Vike21 Cognitive Anthropology through a Gendered Lens 393Carol C. Mukhopadhyay22 Sociality in Cognitive and Sociocultural Anthropologies: The Relationships Aren't Just Additive 413Lynn Thomas23 Cognitive Anthropology and Education: Foundational Models of Self and Cultural Models of Teaching and Learning in Japan and the United States 430Hidetada Shimizu24 Archaeological Approaches to Cognitive Evolution 450Miriam Noël HaidlePART V Some Examples of Contemporary Research 46925 The Distributed Cognition Model of Mind 471Brian Hazlehurst26 A Foundational Cultural Model in Polynesia: Monarchy, Democracy, and the Architecture of the Mind 489Giovanni Bennardo27 Cognitive Approaches to the Study of Romantic Love: Semantic, Cross-Cultural, and as a Process 513Victor C. de Munck28 Trouble as Part of Everyday Life: Cognitive and Sociocultural Processes in Avoiding and Responding to Illness 531Linda C. Garro29 Using Consensus Analysis to Investigate Cultural Models of Alzheimer's Disease 548Robert W. Schrauf and Madelyn IrisAfterword: One Cognitive View of Culture 569David B. KronenfeldIndex 584