James Boster
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617357 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Boster |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Boster |
| SIGNATURE | BOSTER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Anthropology University of California-Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Human Cognition as a Product and Agent of Evolution
This paper explores two complementary ways of examining the relationship between evolution and cognition: the first arguing that human cognition has evolved to make sense of other evolutionary products, the second describing the impact of human cognition on the selection of domesticated plants. The first section of the paper reviews research that delineates the correspondences among different biological classification systems. The second section …
Evolutionary Anthropology Society
Towards IRB Reform
The Successive Pile Sort
Natural and Human Sources of Cross‐Cultural Agreement in Ornithological Classification
Agreement Between Biological Classification Systems Is Not Dependent on Cultural Transmission
General/Theoretical Anthropology
The Correspondence of Jivaroan to Scientific Ornithology
Previous studies offolk biological classification (Diamond 1966; Bulmer 1967, 1970; Berlin, Breedlove, and Raven 1973, 1974; Hunn 1975) have documented a strong correspondence between the ways folk and scientific systems of biological classification delineate natural discontinuities: folk and scientist alike recognize substantially the same categories ofplants and animals. These studies have used methods that assume that all native informants agr…
Can Individuals Recapitulate the Evolutionary Development of Color Lexicons
Cognitive anthropologists attempt to synthesize a psychologist's insight into individuals' cognitive processes with an anthropologist's understanding of a community's cultural knowledge. One route to such a synthesis is to explore how the purposive actions of individuals give rise to community culture. Thus, cognitive anthropologists commonly view culture as an information pool that emerges when communities of individuals attempt to make sense of…
The Construction of Primary Data in Cultural Anthropology
Inferring decision making from preferences and behavior
A comparison of the diversity of Jivaroan Gardens with that of the tropical forest
The Construction of Primary Data in Cultural Anthropology
Agreement Between Biological Classification Systems Is Not Dependent on Cultural Transmission
The Correspondence of Jivaroan to Scientific Ornithology
Previous studies offolk biological classification (Diamond 1966; Bulmer 1967, 1970; Berlin, Breedlove, and Raven 1973, 1974; Hunn 1975) have documented a strong correspondence between the ways folk and scientific systems of biological classification delineate natural discontinuities: folk and scientist alike recognize substantially the same categories ofplants and animals. These studies have used methods that assume that all native informants agr…
Can Individuals Recapitulate the Evolutionary Development of Color Lexicons
Cognitive anthropologists attempt to synthesize a psychologist's insight into individuals' cognitive processes with an anthropologist's understanding of a community's cultural knowledge. One route to such a synthesis is to explore how the purposive actions of individuals give rise to community culture. Thus, cognitive anthropologists commonly view culture as an information pool that emerges when communities of individuals attempt to make sense of…
Natural and Human Sources of Cross‐Cultural Agreement in Ornithological Classification
The Successive Pile Sort
Towards IRB Reform
A comparison of the diversity of Jivaroan Gardens with that of the tropical forest
Inferring decision making from preferences and behavior
General/Theoretical Anthropology
The Correspondence of Jivaroan to Scientific Ornithology
Previous studies offolk biological classification (Diamond 1966; Bulmer 1967, 1970; Berlin, Breedlove, and Raven 1973, 1974; Hunn 1975) have documented a strong correspondence between the ways folk and scientific systems of biological classification delineate natural discontinuities: folk and scientist alike recognize substantially the same categories ofplants and animals. These studies have used methods that assume that all native informants agr…
Can Individuals Recapitulate the Evolutionary Development of Color Lexicons
Cognitive anthropologists attempt to synthesize a psychologist's insight into individuals' cognitive processes with an anthropologist's understanding of a community's cultural knowledge. One route to such a synthesis is to explore how the purposive actions of individuals give rise to community culture. Thus, cognitive anthropologists commonly view culture as an information pool that emerges when communities of individuals attempt to make sense of…
The Construction of Primary Data in Cultural Anthropology
Agreement Between Biological Classification Systems Is Not Dependent on Cultural Transmission
Natural and Human Sources of Cross‐Cultural Agreement in Ornithological Classification
The Successive Pile Sort
Evolutionary Anthropology Society
Towards IRB Reform
Human Cognition as a Product and Agent of Evolution
This paper explores two complementary ways of examining the relationship between evolution and cognition: the first arguing that human cognition has evolved to make sense of other evolutionary products, the second describing the impact of human cognition on the selection of domesticated plants. The first section of the paper reviews research that delineates the correspondences among different biological classification systems. The second section …
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