{"product_id":"cognitive-aspects-of-religious-symbolism-9780521438704","title":"Cognitive Aspects of Religious Symbolism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow are religious ideas presented, acquired and transmitted? The present book is a contribution to this ambitious programme. In closely focused essays, a group of anthropologists debate the particular nature of religious concepts and categories, and begin to specify the cognitive constraints on cultural acquisition and transmission.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI. Cognitive processes and cultural representations: 1. Cognitive aspects of religious symbolism Pascal Boyer; 2. Whither 'ethnoscience'? Scott Atran; II. The structure of religious categories: 3. Computational complexity in the cognitive modelling of cosmological ideas J. D. Keller and F. K. Lehman (U Chit Hlaing); 4. 'Earth' and 'path' as complex categories: semantics and symbolism in Kwaio culture Roger Keesing; 5. Domain-specificity, living kinds and symbolism Maurice Bloch; 6. Pseudo-natural kinds Pascal Boyer; III. Acquisition and belief fixation: 7. Sign into symbol, symbol as sign: cognitive aspects of a social process Christian Toren; 8. Talking about souls: the pragmatic construction of meaning in Cuna ritual language Carlo Severi; IV. The structure of ritual action: 9. Cognitive categories, cultural forms and ritual structures E. Thomas Lawson; 10. The interactive basis of ritual effectiveness in a male initiation rite Michael Houseman.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359065178455,"sku":"9780521438704","price":35.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780521438704.jpg?v=1754123438","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cognitive-aspects-of-religious-symbolism-9780521438704","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}