Abstract

RODRIGUEZ SALAZAR, Tania. Culture and Cognition: Between Society and Nature. Rev. Mex. Sociol [online]. 2006, vol.68, n.3, pp.399-430. ISSN 2594-0651.

Among the few anthropological and sociological trends in culture to have examined the cognitive determinants involved in the processes of creating and sharing meanings are the cognitive theories of culture in two of their contemporary versions: social and naturalist or evolutionary. This article describes and analyzes the convergences and divergences between these two approaches in order to explain the phenomena of cultural diversity, cultural conceptualization, the influence of culture on action, the distribution of representations and their persistence over time (in people and between generations).

Keywords : Culture; cognition; cultural models; cultural theories; cognitive anthropology.

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