The cultural origins of human cognition / Michael Tomasello.

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Tomasello, Michael [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1999Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780674044371
0674044371

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cultural Origins of Human Cognition.DDC classification:

153 21

LOC classification:

BF311 .T647 1999

NLM classification:

2000 E-793
BF 311

Other classification:

73.85
CP 4000
CZ 8000

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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.

Review: "From an Evolutionary point of view, human cognition is a puzzle. Human beings have been a distinct species for only a very short time, but in this short time we have developed the skills needed to create complex tools and technologies, languages and other symbol systems, and complex social institutions like governments and religions."--Jacket.Summary: "Many current theories of human cognition stress its biological roots, while others stress its cultural roots. Tomasello demonstrates that both of these perspectives are essential in creating a unified account of the evolution, history, and development of human cognition. He makes a powerful case that while human cognition is biologically based, this biological adaptation's key contribution is that it permits the flowering of the cultural-historical and ontogenetic processes that have actually made the varieties of human cognition what they are today."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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"From an Evolutionary point of view, human cognition is a puzzle. Human beings have been a distinct species for only a very short time, but in this short time we have developed the skills needed to create complex tools and technologies, languages and other symbol systems, and complex social institutions like governments and religions."--Jacket.

"Many current theories of human cognition stress its biological roots, while others stress its cultural roots. Tomasello demonstrates that both of these perspectives are essential in creating a unified account of the evolution, history, and development of human cognition. He makes a powerful case that while human cognition is biologically based, this biological adaptation's key contribution is that it permits the flowering of the cultural-historical and ontogenetic processes that have actually made the varieties of human cognition what they are today."--Jacket.

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