Should anthropology be part of cognitive science?

Topics in Cognitive Science

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 342-353

  Beller, Sieghard ^a,b   Bender, Andrea ^a,b   Medin, Douglas L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropology; Cognitive science; Culture; Interdisciplinarity; Universals and diversity

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANTHROPOLOGY; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84863757234     PISSN: 17568757     EISSN: 17568765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2012.01196.x     Document Type: Article

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