Anthropology & Cognition

Introduction

Good places to start

Hallpike, C.R. (1979). The Foundations of Primitive Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Books

Must-read books - original sources, commentaries and collections

Atran, S. (1990). Cognitive Foundations of Natural History: Towards an Anthropology of Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Cole, M. (1996). Cultural Psychology. A Once and Future Discipline. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Cole, M., Glick, J., & Sharp, D. (1971). The Cultural Context of Learning and Thinking. London: Methuen.

Gay, J., & Cole, M. (1967). The New Mathematics and an Old Culture. New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston.

Hallpike, C.R. (1979). The Foundations of Primitive Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Lancy, D. (1983). Cross-Cultural Studies in Cognition and Mathematics. New York: Academic Press.

Lévi-Strauss, C. (1972). The Savage Mind. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.

Luria, A.R. (1976). Cognitive Development. Its cultural and social foundations. Harvard University Press.

Prince, J.R. (1969). Science Concepts in a Pacific Culture. Sydney: Angus & Robertson.

Collections

Berry, J.W., & Dasen, P.R. (eds.) (1974). Culture and Cognition: Readings in Cross-Cultural Psychology. London: Methuen.

Bruner, J. et al (eds.) (1966) Studies in Cognitive Growth. New York: Wiley.

Kearney, G.E., de Lacey, P.R., & Davidson, G.R. (eds.) (1973). The Psychology of Aboriginal Australians. Sydney: Wiley.

Warren, N. (ed.) (1977). Studies in Cross-Cultural Psychology. London: Academic Press.

Papers

Key papers & discussions.

Atran, S. (1998). Folk biology and the anthropology of science: cognitive universals and cultural particulars. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21: 547–609.

Journals

Journals that regularly carry valuable papers on this topic

Websites

Websites worth knowing about