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Are folk taxonomies “memes”?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1998

Dan Sperber
Dan Sperber
Affiliation:
CREA, Ecole Polytechnique, 75005 Paris, [email protected]
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Abstract

This commentary stresses the importance of Atran's work for the development of a new cognitive anthropology, but questions both his particular use of Dawkins's “meme” model and the general usefulness of the meme model for understanding folk-taxonomies as cultural phenomena.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , August 1998 , pp. 589 - 590
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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