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The Native Mind and the Cultural Construction of Nature

The Native Mind and the Cultural Construction of Nature

Atran, Scott
Medin, Douglas L.

Paperback

Series: Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psycholog

AnthropologyEnvironmental StudiesGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0262514087
ISBN13: 9780262514088
Publisher: Bradford Book
Published: Mar 31 2010
Pages: 342
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
An analysis of the cognitive consequences of diminished contact with nature examines the relationship between how people think about the natural world and how they act on it, and how these are affected by cultural differences.

Surveys show that our growing concern over protecting the environment is accompanied by a diminishing sense of human contact with nature. Many people have little commonsense knowledge about nature--are unable, for example, to identify local plants and trees or describe how these plants and animals interact. Researchers report dwindling knowledge of nature even in smaller, nonindustrialized societies. In The Native Mind and the Cultural Construction of Nature, Scott Atran and Douglas Medin trace the cognitive consequences of this loss of knowledge. Drawing on nearly two decades of cross-cultural and developmental research, they examine the relationship between how people think about the natural world and how they act on it and how these are affected by cultural differences.

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