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Cognition and Tool Use: The Blacksmith at Work

Autor Charles M. Keller, Janet Dixon Keller
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 mar 2008
In Cognition and Tool Use, anthropologists Janet and Charles Keller provide an account of human accomplishment based on ethnographic study. Blacksmithing - the transformation of glowing iron into artistic and utilitarian products - is the activity in which they study situated learning. This domain, permeated by visual imagery and physical virtuosity rather than verbal logic, appears antithetical to the usual realms of cognitive study. For this reason, it provides a new entree to human thought and an empirical test for an anthropology of knowledge. How does a mind in action access a stable, "sedimented" body of knowledge and create something original? What does human tool use say about human thought? What does someone need to know to successfully produce a material artifact and how do they gain this understanding? In addressing these questions, the authors offer an interdisciplinary perspective on the principled creativity of human behavior. This book will especially appeal to anthropologists and psychologists who wish to explore an alternative approach to learning and cognition.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521056489
ISBN-10: 0521056489
Pagini: 220
Ilustrații: 41 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

1. Introduction; 2. Profile of artist blacksmiths; 3. The stock of knowledge; 4. Constellations for action; 5. Emergence and accomplishment in an account of production; 6. Imagery in ironwork; 7. Beyond blacksmithing.

Recenzii

"An important contribution to an anthropology of knowledge that departs from and takes into account the impressive body of work on the cognitive anthropology of the 1960's and '70s." G.E. Marcus, Choice

Descriere

Janet and Charles Keller provide an account of situated learning based on the ethnographic study of blacksmithing.