Anthropologists as cognitive scientists

Topics in Cognitive Science

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 453-461

  Astuti, Rita ^a   Bloch, Maurice ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthropology; Cognitive science; Ethnography

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; COOPERATION; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC RELATIONS; RESEARCH;

ANTHROPOLOGY; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; KNOWLEDGE; RESEARCH;

EID: 84863764229     PISSN: 17568757     EISSN: 17568765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2012.01191.x     Document Type: Article

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