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Cognition and Tool Use: The Blacksmith at Work (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive, and Computational Perspectives) - Softcover
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Anthropologists Janet and Charles Keller provide an account of situated learning based on the ethnographic study of blacksmithing. Through both concrete and abstract accomplishment, they demonstrate a dynamic dialectic between knowledge and practice which characterizes this specific trade and much of human behaviour.
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"An important contribution to an anthropology of knowledge that departs from and takes into account the impressive body of work on the cognitive anthropology of the 1960's and '70s." G.E. Marcus, Choice
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In Cognition and Tool Use, anthropologists Janet and Charles Keller provide an account of human accomplishment based on ethnographic study. Blacksmithing, the transformation of glowing iron into artistic and utilitarian products, is the activity they chose to develop a study of situated learning. This domain, permeated by visual imagery and physical virtuosity rather than verbal logic, appears antithetical to the usual realms of cognitive study. For this reason, it provides a new entrée to human thought and an empirical test for an anthropology of knowledge. How does a mind in practice approach a stable, 'sedimented' body of knowledge and create something truly original? What does human tool use say about human thought? What does someone need to know to successfully produce a material artifact and how do they learn it? In addressing these questions, the authors offer an interdisciplinary perspective on the principled creativity of human behaviour.
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- VerlagCambridge University Press
- Erscheinungsdatum2008
- ISBN 10 0521056489
- ISBN 13 9780521056489
- EinbandTapa blanda
- Anzahl der Seiten220
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - In Cognition and Tool Use, anthropologists Janet and Charles Keller provide an account of human accomplishment based on ethnographic study. Blacksmithing - the transformation of glowing iron into artistic and utilitarian products - is the activity in which they study situated learning. This domain, permeated by visual imagery and physical virtuosity rather than verbal logic, appears antithetical to the usual realms of cognitive study. For this reason, it provides a new entree to human thought and an empirical test for an anthropology of knowledge. How does a mind in action access a stable, 'sedimented' body of knowledge and create something original What does human tool use say about human thought What does someone need to know to successfully produce a material artifact and how do they gain this understanding In addressing these questions, the authors offer an interdisciplinary perspective on the principled creativity of human behavior. This book will especially appeal to anthropologists and psychologists who wish to explore an alternative approach to learning and cognition. Artikel-Nr. 9780521056489
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