Title
The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition / Michael Tomasello.
ISBN
9780674044371
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2000
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (256 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4159/9780674044371 doi
Call Number
BF311 ǂb T647 1999eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
153
Summary
Bridging the gap between evolutionary theory and cultural psychology, Michael Tomasello argues that the roots of the human capacity for symbol-based culture are based in a cluster of uniquely human cognitive capacities. These include capacities for understanding that others have intentions of their own, and for imitating, not just what someone else does, but what someone else has intended to do. Tomasello further describes with authority and ingenuity how these capacities work over evolutionary and historical time to create the kind of cultural artifacts and settings within which each new generation of children develops.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)
Frontmatter
Acknowledgments
Contents
1 A Puzzle and a Hypothesis
2 Biological and Cultural Inheritance
3 Joint Attention and Cultural Learning
4 Linguistic Communication and Symbolic Representation
5 Linguistic Constructions and Event Cognition
6 Discourse and Representational Redescription
7 Cultural Cognition
References
Index
