by Maurice E. F. Bloch · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9780813333748
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«How We Think They Think» is a book of anthropology essays by Maurice E. F. Bloch, published by Westview Press in paperback (215 pages, in English).
Twelve linked essays by Maurice Bloch on whether cognition depends on language, the reliability of memory in personal narratives, and the relationship between social recall and autobiographical memory. With his fieldwork among the Zafimaniry of Madagascar, he questions conventional cognitive models and ethnographic assumptions.
Subtitle: «Anthropological Approaches to Cognition, Memory, and Literacy». First edition, published in 1998.
For students and researchers in anthropology, cognitive sciences, and ethnography, also interested in the culture and peoples of Africa.
