A multidisciplinary collaboration exploring the role of cultural knowledge in everyday language and understanding.

The volume offers a number of representative papers on cognitive models that are invoked when people deal with questions of social identity, political and econo

This book is about cultural models. Cultural models are defined as molar organizations of knowledge. Their internal structure consists of a 'core' component and

This edited collection presents a range of heretofore unpublished, unavailable methods for the systematic reconstruction of culture from interviews and other di

'Culture' and 'meaning' are central to anthropology, but anthropologists do not agree on what they are. Claudia Strauss and Naomi Quinn propose a new theory of