Culture and Inference: A Trobriand Case Study
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| Beschreibung: | 10 schw.-w. Abb There has been broad agreement within anthropology that culture might be usefully viewed as a system of tacit rules that constrain the meaningful interpretation of events and serve as a guide to action. However, no one has made a serious attempt to write a cultural grammar that would make such rules explicit. In Culture and Inference Edwin Hutchins makes just such an attempt for one enormously instructive case, the Trobriand Islanders' system of land tenure This book takes a major step in psychological anthropology by applying new analytic tools from cognitive science to one of the oldest and most vexing anthropological problems: the nature of "primitive" thought. For a decade or more there has been broad agreement within anthropology that culture might be usefully viewed as a system of tacit rules that constrain the meaningful interpretation of events and serve as a guide to action. However, no one has made a serious attempt to write a cultural grammar that would make such rules explicit. In Culture and Inference Edwin Hutchins makes just such an attempt for one enormously instructive case, the Trobriand Islanders' system of land tenure. Using the propositional network notation developed by Rumeihart and Norman, Hutchins describes native knowledge about land tenure as a set of twelve propositions. Inferences are derived from these propositions by a set of transfer formulas that govern the way in which static knowledge about land tenure can be applied to new disputes. After deriving this descriptive system by extensive observation of the Trobrianders' land courts and by interrogation of litigants, Hutchins provides a test of his grammar by showing how it can be used to simulate decisions in new cases. What is most interesting about these simulations, generally, is that they require all the same logical operations that arise from a careful analysis of Western thought. Looking closely at "primitive" inference in a natural situation, Hutchins finds that Trobriand reasoning is no more primitive than our own |
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| spelling | Hutchins, Edwin Verfasser aut Culture and Inference A Trobriand Case Study Edwin Hutchins Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press [1980] 1 Online-Ressource (x,143p.) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Cognitive Science Series 2 10 schw.-w. Abb There has been broad agreement within anthropology that culture might be usefully viewed as a system of tacit rules that constrain the meaningful interpretation of events and serve as a guide to action. However, no one has made a serious attempt to write a cultural grammar that would make such rules explicit. In Culture and Inference Edwin Hutchins makes just such an attempt for one enormously instructive case, the Trobriand Islanders' system of land tenure This book takes a major step in psychological anthropology by applying new analytic tools from cognitive science to one of the oldest and most vexing anthropological problems: the nature of "primitive" thought. For a decade or more there has been broad agreement within anthropology that culture might be usefully viewed as a system of tacit rules that constrain the meaningful interpretation of events and serve as a guide to action. However, no one has made a serious attempt to write a cultural grammar that would make such rules explicit. In Culture and Inference Edwin Hutchins makes just such an attempt for one enormously instructive case, the Trobriand Islanders' system of land tenure. Using the propositional network notation developed by Rumeihart and Norman, Hutchins describes native knowledge about land tenure as a set of twelve propositions. Inferences are derived from these propositions by a set of transfer formulas that govern the way in which static knowledge about land tenure can be applied to new disputes. After deriving this descriptive system by extensive observation of the Trobrianders' land courts and by interrogation of litigants, Hutchins provides a test of his grammar by showing how it can be used to simulate decisions in new cases. What is most interesting about these simulations, generally, is that they require all the same logical operations that arise from a careful analysis of Western thought. Looking closely at "primitive" inference in a natural situation, Hutchins finds that Trobriand reasoning is no more primitive than our own In English Ethnology / Papua New Guinea / Trobriand Islands Cognition and culture / Papua New Guinea / Trobriand Islands Land tenure / Papua New Guinea / Trobriand Islands Culture / Papua New Guinea Ethnology / Papua New Guinea Logic / Papua New Guinea Ethnologie / Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée / Trobriand, Îles Cognition et culture / Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée / Trobriand, Îles Propriété foncière (Droit primitif) / Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée / Trobriand, Îles Ethnologie / Trobriand (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée ; îles) Cognition et culture / Trobriand (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée ; îles) Propriété foncière / Droit primitif / Trobriand (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée ; îles) Kultur Geschichte der übrigen Welt Ethnological jurisprudence Ethnologie juridique Cognition and culture Ethnology Land tenure Landrechten Cognitie Cultuur Ethnologie Ethnologie (DE-588)4078931-7 gnd rswk-swf Trobriand-Inseln (DE-588)4060952-2 gnd rswk-swf Trobriand-Inseln (DE-588)4060952-2 g Ethnologie (DE-588)4078931-7 s 1\p DE-604 Erscheint auch als Druckausgabe 978-0-674-41863-9 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674418660 Verlag Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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| title | Culture and Inference A Trobriand Case Study |
| title_auth | Culture and Inference A Trobriand Case Study |
| title_exact_search | Culture and Inference A Trobriand Case Study |
| title_full | Culture and Inference A Trobriand Case Study Edwin Hutchins |
| title_fullStr | Culture and Inference A Trobriand Case Study Edwin Hutchins |
| title_full_unstemmed | Culture and Inference A Trobriand Case Study Edwin Hutchins |
| title_short | Culture and Inference |
| title_sort | culture and inference a trobriand case study |
| title_sub | A Trobriand Case Study |
| topic | Ethnology / Papua New Guinea / Trobriand Islands Cognition and culture / Papua New Guinea / Trobriand Islands Land tenure / Papua New Guinea / Trobriand Islands Culture / Papua New Guinea Ethnology / Papua New Guinea Logic / Papua New Guinea Ethnologie / Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée / Trobriand, Îles Cognition et culture / Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée / Trobriand, Îles Propriété foncière (Droit primitif) / Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée / Trobriand, Îles Ethnologie / Trobriand (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée ; îles) Cognition et culture / Trobriand (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée ; îles) Propriété foncière / Droit primitif / Trobriand (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée ; îles) Kultur Geschichte der übrigen Welt Ethnological jurisprudence Ethnologie juridique Cognition and culture Ethnology Land tenure Landrechten Cognitie Cultuur Ethnologie Ethnologie (DE-588)4078931-7 gnd |
| topic_facet | Ethnology / Papua New Guinea / Trobriand Islands Cognition and culture / Papua New Guinea / Trobriand Islands Land tenure / Papua New Guinea / Trobriand Islands Culture / Papua New Guinea Ethnology / Papua New Guinea Logic / Papua New Guinea Ethnologie / Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée / Trobriand, Îles Cognition et culture / Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée / Trobriand, Îles Propriété foncière (Droit primitif) / Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée / Trobriand, Îles Ethnologie / Trobriand (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée ; îles) Cognition et culture / Trobriand (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée ; îles) Propriété foncière / Droit primitif / Trobriand (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée ; îles) Kultur Geschichte der übrigen Welt Ethnological jurisprudence Ethnologie juridique Cognition and culture Ethnology Land tenure Landrechten Cognitie Cultuur Ethnologie Trobriand-Inseln |
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