David B. Kronenfeld is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Riverside and is the author of numerous books, including Culture, Society, and Cognition: Collective Goals, Values, Action, and Knowledge (2008).
 
Giovanni Bennardo is Associate Professor at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of three books, most recently Language, Space, and Social Relationships: A Foundational Cultural Model in Polynesia (2009).
 
Michael D. Fischer is Professor of Anthropological Sciences at the University of Kent and has written Applications in Computing for Social Anthropologists (1994).
 
Victor de Munck is Associate Professor of Anthropology at State University New York, New Paltz, and is the author of numerous publications, including Research Design and Methods for Studying Cultures (2009).

Notes on Contributors viii
 
Acknowledgments xvi
 
Introduction 1
 
PART I History of Cognitive Anthropology; Nature and Types of Cultural Knowledge Structures 9
 
1 A History of Cognitive Anthropology 11
B. G. Blount
 
2 The History of the Cultural Models School Reconsidered: A Paradigm Shift in Cognitive Anthropology 30
Naomi Quinn
 
3 The Cognitive Context of Cognitive Anthropology 47
Jürg Wassmann, Christian Kluge, and Dominik Albrecht
 
4 The Limits of the Habitual: Shifting Paradigms for Language and Thought 61
Janet Dixon Keller
 
5 Types of Collective Representations: Cognition, Mental Architecture, and Cultural Knowledge 82
Giovanni Bennardo and David B. Kronenfeld
 
6 Personal Knowledge and Collective Representations 102
John B. Gatewood
 
PART II Methodologies 115
 
7 How to Collect Data that Warrant Analysis 117
W. Penn Handwerker
 
8 Data, Method, and Interpretation in Cognitive Anthropology 131
James Boster
 
9 Multi-Item Scales and Cognitive Ethnography 153
Kateryna Maltseva and Roy D'Andrade
 
10 Consensus Analysis 171
Stephen P. Borgatti and Daniel S. Halgin
 
11 Narrative, Mind, and Culture 191
Benjamin N. Colby
 
12 Simulation (and Modeling) 210
Michael Fischer and David B. Kronenfeld
 
PART III Cognitive Structures of Cultural Domains 227
 
13 Mathematical Representation of Cultural Constructs 229
Dwight Read
 
14 Kinship Theory and Cognitive Theory in Anthropology 254
F. K. L. Chit Hlaing (F. K. Lehman)
 
15 Numerical Cognition and Ethnomathematics 270
Andrea Bender and Sieghard Beller
 
16 "Indigenous Knowledge" and the Understanding of Cultural Cognition: The Contribution of Studies of Environmental Knowledge Systems 290
Roy Ellen
 
17 Emotions, Motivation, and Behavior in Cognitive Anthropology 314
E. N. Anderson
 
18 Social Networks, Cognition, and Culture 331
Douglas R. White
 
PART IV Cognitive Anthropology and Other Disciplines 355
 
19 Culture and Cognition: The Role of Cognitive Anthropology in Anthropology and the Cognitive Sciences 357
Norbert Ross and Douglas L. Medin
 
20 Cultural Models, Power, and Hegemony 376
Halvard Vike
 
21 Cognitive Anthropology through a Gendered Lens 393
Carol C. Mukhopadhyay
 
22 Sociality in Cognitive and Sociocultural Anthropologies: The Relationships Aren't Just Additive 413
Lynn Thomas
 
23 Cognitive Anthropology and Education: Foundational Models of Self and Cultural Models of Teaching and Learning in Japan and the United States 430
Hidetada Shimizu
 
24 Archaeological Approaches to Cognitive Evolution 450
Miriam Noël Haidle
 
PART V Some Examples of Contemporary Research 469
 
25 The Distributed Cognition Model of Mind 471
Brian Hazlehurst
 
26 A Foundational Cultural Model in Polynesia: Monarchy, Democracy, and the Architecture of the Mind 489
Giovanni Bennardo
 
27 Cognitive Approaches to the Study of Romantic Love: Semantic, Cross-Cultural, and as a Process 513
Victor C. de Munck
 
28 Trouble as Part of Everyday Life: Cognitive and Sociocultural Processes in Avoiding and Responding to Illness 531
Linda C. Garro
 
29 Using Consensus Analysis to Investigate Cultural Models of Alzheimer's Disease 548
Robert W. Schrauf and Madelyn Iris
 
Afterword: One Cognitive View of Culture 569
David B. Kronenfeld
 
Index 584

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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