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The Past and the Present in the Present
Maurice Bloch
- Vol. 12, Iss: 2, pp 278
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Organizational Learning and Communities-of-Practice: Toward a Unified View of Working, Learning, and Innovation
John Seely Brown,Paul Duguid +1 more
TL;DR: Work, learning, and innovation in the context of actual communities and actual practices are discussed in this paper, where it is argued that the conventional descriptions of jobs mask not only the ways people work, but also significant learning and innovation generated in the informal communities-of-practice in which they work.
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The Cultural Anthropology of Time: A Critical Essay
TL;DR: A review of the cultural anthropology of time is like reading Borges's "Book of Sand": as one opens this book, pages keep growing from it-it has no beginning or end as discussed by the authors.
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Anthropology and Psychology: Towards an Epidemiology of Representations
TL;DR: The authors soutient que les phenomenes culturels sont des distributions de representations dans une population humaine, en quelque sorte des modeles ecologiques de faits psychologiques.
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Continuity thinking and the problem of christian culture : Belief, time, and the anthropology of christianity
TL;DR: A close reading of the Comaroffs' Of Revelation and Revolution illustrates the ways in which anthropologists sideline Christianity and leads to a discussion of reasons the anthropology of Christianity has languished as discussed by the authors.
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Beyond intuition and instinct blindness: toward an evolutionarily rigorous cognitive science
Leda Cosmides,John Tooby +1 more
TL;DR: Cognitive psychology has an opportunity to turn itself into a theoretically rigorous discipline in which a powerful set of theories organize observations and suggest focused new hypotheses, but this cannot happen, as long as intuition and folk psychology continue to set the research agenda.