Culture and Cognition: Implications for Theory and Method

For graduate and advanced undergraduate students and researchers in anthropology and psychology, Ross (anthropology, Vanderbilt U.) tries to chart some middle ground between the two academic disciplines, which he says should never have been separated in the first place. He predicts that psychologists will complain that he has bled rigor from the experimental design and muddled the notion of cognition with culture; and anthropologists, while applauding his quest to abandon undergraduate students as experimental subjects, will resist the introduction of formal experimental models and statistical models into their field. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR