Facing the sunrise: Cultural worldview underlying intrinsic-based encoding of absolute frames of reference in aymara

Cognitive Science

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 965-991

  Núñez, Rafael E ^a   Cornejo, Carlos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Aymara; Cognitive ethnography; Embodied cognition; Everyday cognition; Gesture; Language and thought; Spatial frames of reference; Whorfian hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILE; COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE;

ADULT; CHILE; COGNITION; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84864339626     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2012.01237.x     Document Type: Article

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