Lawrence A Hirschfeld
Biographic Data
| ID | 88399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lawrence A Hirschfeld |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lawrence A |
| FAMILY NAME | Hirschfeld |
| SIGNATURE | HIRSCHFELD L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8092-0231 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 298 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The Rutherford Atom of Culture
Increasingly, psychologists have shown a healthy interest in cultural variation and a skepticism about assuming that research with North American and Northern European undergraduates provides reliable insight into universal psychological processes. Unfortunately, this reappraisal has not been extended to questioning the notion of culture central to this project. Rather, there is wide acceptance that culture refers to a kind of social form that is…
Seven Myths of Race and the Young Child
Racism reproduces through children. Racial bias is acquired early, and like many early-acquired predilections it is tenaciously resistant to counterevidence. Much of the institutional struggle against racism focuses on children, working to change their attitudes and judgments by addressing what children supposedly have come to know and believe about race. Yet much of what lay folk and educators alike imagine about children's knowledge of race and…
Discovering Linguistic Differences: Domain Specificity and the Young Child’s Awareness of Multiple Languages
The child’s rich and specific categorical skills have been the focus of considerable empirical research. Recent work supports the claim that even preschoolers acquire domain-specific and structured knowledge about natural kinds, on the one hand, and certain types of social and moral judgments, on the other. The present paper considers the young child’s recognition of multiple languages in light of these findings on domain specificity. We argue th…
Folksociology and the Cognitive Foundations of Culture
Folksociology et les fondements cognitifs de la culture. Une caractéristique de la vie sociale humaine est sa variabilité au cours de l’histoire et entre les cultures. Il y a cependant une constante, qui réside dans l’importance du sentiment d’appartenance au groupe, dans le raisonnement à propos du comportement des autres. Le fait que des modes de raisonnement soient acquis en fonction du groupe auquel on appartient a typiquement été considéré c…
The cognitive foundations of cultural stability and diversity
Pourquoi les anthropologues n'aiment-ils pas les enfants
Très peu de travaux majeurs en anthropologie s'intéressent prioritairement aux enfants. On peut s'en étonner étant donné que presque toute l'anthropologie contemporaine est fondée sur la présupposition selon laquelle la culture est acquise et non innée. Cet essai examine les raisons de cette regrettable lacune et propose des motifs, à la fois théoriques et empiriques, pour y remédier. Selon l'auteur, la réticence à donner la première place aux en…
Why Don't Anthropologists Like Children
Few major works in anthropology focus specifically on children, a curious state of affairs given that virtually all contemporary anthropology is based on the premise that culture is learned, not inherited. Although children have a remarkable and undisputed capacity for learning generally, and learning culture in particular, in significant measure anthropology has shown little interest in them and their lives. This article examines the reasons for…
Race et réductionnisme: Réponse à Georges Guille-Escuret
Je remercie Georges Guille-Escuret pour la lecture attentive de mon récent article paru dans L’Homme. Nous sommes d’accord sur le fait qu’il y a un certain nombre de questions qui méritent d’être débattues, et qui y étaient soulevées. Nous divergeons, cependant, quant à la meilleure façon d’interpréter les données dont j’ai fait état. Avant de répondre aux critiques de Georges Guille-Escuret, je voudrais d’abord dissiper, pour lui et pour les lec…
The Inside Story
How We Think They Think: Anthropological Approaches to Cognition, Memory, and Literacy. Maurice E. F. Bloch. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.205 pp.Explaining Culture:. Naturalistic Approach. Dan Sperber. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1996. 175 pp.Cognitive Theory of Cultural Meaning. Claudia Strauss and Naomi Quinn. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 323 pp.Mind as Action. James V. Wertsch. New York: Oxford University Press, 19…
La règle de la goutte de sang ou comment l'idée de race vient aux enfants
Hirschfeld Lawrence A. La règle de la goutte de sang ou comment l'idée de race vient aux enfants. In: L'Homme, 1999, tome 39 n°150. De la différence et de l'exlcusion. pp. 15-39
Peer Prejudice and Discrimination: Evolutionary, Cultural, and Developmental Dynamics (Book)
The Conceptual Politics of Race: Lessons from Our Children
Peer Reviewed
Race in the Making: Cognition, Culture, and the Child's Construction of Human Kinds
Race in the Making provides a new understanding of how people conceptualize social categories and shows why this knowledge is so readily recruited to create and maintain systems of unequal power. Hirschfeld argues that knowledge of race is not derived from observations of physical difference nor does it develop in the same way as knowledge of other social categories. Instead, his central claim is that racial thinking is the product of a special-p…
Toward a topography of mind: An introduction to domain specificity
Over the past decades, a major challenge to a widely accepted view of the human mind has developed across several disciplines. According to a long predominant view, human beings are endowed with a general set of reasoning abilities that they bring to bear on any cognitive task, whatever its specific content. Thus, many have argued, a common set of processes apply to all thought, whether it involves solving mathematical problems, learning natural …
Is the acquisition of social categories based on domain-specific competence or on knowledge transfer?
The understanding of some conceptual domains is clearly helped by a domainspecific competence, as many of the chapters in this volume establish. This is the case for middle-sized objects physics (Carey & Spelke), living kind classification (Atran, Keil), theory of mind (Gopnik & Wellman, Leslie), and numerosity (R. Gelman & Brenneman). Other conceptual domains lack such an underlying domain-specific competence, including, for instance, astronomy,…
Mapping the mind: Domain Specificity in Cognition and Culture
Mapping the Mind: Domain Specificity In Cognition And Culture
Preface Domain specificity: an introduction Lawrence Hirschfeld and Susan Gelman Part I. General/Theoretical Approaches: 1. The modularity of thought Dan Sperber 2. Domain specificity and cultural variation are not inconsistent: lessons from number and music Rochel Gelman and Kimberly Brenneman Part II. Are Domains Theories?: 3. The theory theory Alison Gopkin and Henry Wellman 4. Thinking by children and scientists: false analogies and neglected…
Ethnobiological Classification: Principles of Categorization of Plants and Animals in Traditional Societies. BRENT Berlin
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Shades of Black: Diversity in African‐American Identity . William E. Cross, Jr
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Tradition as Truth and Communication: A Cognitive Description of Traditional Discourse. Pascal Boyer
The Body Silent
Communicating Racism: Ethnic Prejudice in Thought and Talk
On Acquiring Social Categories: Cognitive Development and Anthropological Wisdom
Identification des processus cognitifs a l'oeuvre dans la classification sociale, notamment en ce qui concerne la prise de conscience et la representation chez les jeunes enfants des categories raciales et ethniques. Dans l'optique d'une anthropologie cognitive l'A. revise certaines approches du developpement cognitif en relativisant l'importance du contexte culturel non pas au plan des classifications sociales mais au stade de l'acquisition des …
Hermeneutics and Some Lessons from Anthropology
Kinship and Cognition: Genealogy and the Meaning of Kinship Terms
Anthropologists concerned with formal semantic analysis have overwhelmingly accepted the notion that the referential universe of kinship terms is genealogically constrained, while those concerned with a more discursive and symbolic approach have been equally consistent in rejecting that constraint. Formal analysts have typically defended their view by citing (semantic) psychological arguments, i.e., ones focusing on how the mental states and cogn…
Why Don't Anthropologists Like Children
Few major works in anthropology focus specifically on children, a curious state of affairs given that virtually all contemporary anthropology is based on the premise that culture is learned, not inherited. Although children have a remarkable and undisputed capacity for learning generally, and learning culture in particular, in significant measure anthropology has shown little interest in them and their lives. This article examines the reasons for…
Mapping the Mind: Domain Specificity In Cognition And Culture
Preface Domain specificity: an introduction Lawrence Hirschfeld and Susan Gelman Part I. General/Theoretical Approaches: 1. The modularity of thought Dan Sperber 2. Domain specificity and cultural variation are not inconsistent: lessons from number and music Rochel Gelman and Kimberly Brenneman Part II. Are Domains Theories?: 3. The theory theory Alison Gopkin and Henry Wellman 4. Thinking by children and scientists: false analogies and neglected…
Race in the Making: Cognition, Culture, and the Child's Construction of Human Kinds
Race in the Making provides a new understanding of how people conceptualize social categories and shows why this knowledge is so readily recruited to create and maintain systems of unequal power. Hirschfeld argues that knowledge of race is not derived from observations of physical difference nor does it develop in the same way as knowledge of other social categories. Instead, his central claim is that racial thinking is the product of a special-p…
On Acquiring Social Categories: Cognitive Development and Anthropological Wisdom
Identification des processus cognitifs a l'oeuvre dans la classification sociale, notamment en ce qui concerne la prise de conscience et la representation chez les jeunes enfants des categories raciales et ethniques. Dans l'optique d'une anthropologie cognitive l'A. revise certaines approches du developpement cognitif en relativisant l'importance du contexte culturel non pas au plan des classifications sociales mais au stade de l'acquisition des …
Kinship and Cognition: Genealogy and the Meaning of Kinship Terms
Anthropologists concerned with formal semantic analysis have overwhelmingly accepted the notion that the referential universe of kinship terms is genealogically constrained, while those concerned with a more discursive and symbolic approach have been equally consistent in rejecting that constraint. Formal analysts have typically defended their view by citing (semantic) psychological arguments, i.e., ones focusing on how the mental states and cogn…
Pourquoi les anthropologues n'aiment-ils pas les enfants
Très peu de travaux majeurs en anthropologie s'intéressent prioritairement aux enfants. On peut s'en étonner étant donné que presque toute l'anthropologie contemporaine est fondée sur la présupposition selon laquelle la culture est acquise et non innée. Cet essai examine les raisons de cette regrettable lacune et propose des motifs, à la fois théoriques et empiriques, pour y remédier. Selon l'auteur, la réticence à donner la première place aux en…
Seven Myths of Race and the Young Child
Racism reproduces through children. Racial bias is acquired early, and like many early-acquired predilections it is tenaciously resistant to counterevidence. Much of the institutional struggle against racism focuses on children, working to change their attitudes and judgments by addressing what children supposedly have come to know and believe about race. Yet much of what lay folk and educators alike imagine about children's knowledge of race and…
The Conceptual Politics of Race: Lessons from Our Children
Peer Reviewed
Art in Cunaland: Ideology and Cultural Adaption
Warfare, Infanticide, and Statistical Inference: A Comment on Divale and Harris
La règle de la goutte de sang ou comment l'idée de race vient aux enfants
Hirschfeld Lawrence A. La règle de la goutte de sang ou comment l'idée de race vient aux enfants. In: L'Homme, 1999, tome 39 n°150. De la différence et de l'exlcusion. pp. 15-39
The Inside Story
How We Think They Think: Anthropological Approaches to Cognition, Memory, and Literacy. Maurice E. F. Bloch. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.205 pp.Explaining Culture:. Naturalistic Approach. Dan Sperber. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1996. 175 pp.Cognitive Theory of Cultural Meaning. Claudia Strauss and Naomi Quinn. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 323 pp.Mind as Action. James V. Wertsch. New York: Oxford University Press, 19…
The Star Girls' Descent: A Myth about Men, Women, Matrilocality, and Singing
THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OP SEX ROLES and the place of women in society has in recent years given increasing prominence to myth, ritual, and cosmology. Male-dominated symbolic forms have been variously analyzed as charters or justifications for the subjugation of women, as testimony to male fears and ambivalence, as strategic resources in skirmishing between the sexes, or even as the means of male domination.1 Female participation in or control of r…
Cuna Aesthetics: A Quantitative Analysis
Theories of knowledge and culture
The Rutherford Atom of Culture
Increasingly, psychologists have shown a healthy interest in cultural variation and a skepticism about assuming that research with North American and Northern European undergraduates provides reliable insight into universal psychological processes. Unfortunately, this reappraisal has not been extended to questioning the notion of culture central to this project. Rather, there is wide acceptance that culture refers to a kind of social form that is…
Peer Prejudice and Discrimination: Evolutionary, Cultural, and Developmental Dynamics (Book)
The Body Silent
Cuna Aesthetics: A Quantitative Analysis
Art in Cunaland: Ideology and Cultural Adaption
Warfare, Infanticide, and Statistical Inference: A Comment on Divale and Harris
A Reply to Divale et al
Notes on the Toba Batak (Sumatra)
Hirschfeld Lawrence A. Notes on the Toba Batak (Sumatra). In: L'Homme, 1979, tome 19 n°1. pp. 141-144
The Star Girls' Descent: A Myth about Men, Women, Matrilocality, and Singing
THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OP SEX ROLES and the place of women in society has in recent years given increasing prominence to myth, ritual, and cosmology. Male-dominated symbolic forms have been variously analyzed as charters or justifications for the subjugation of women, as testimony to male fears and ambivalence, as strategic resources in skirmishing between the sexes, or even as the means of male domination.1 Female participation in or control of r…
Theories of knowledge and culture
Hermeneutics and Some Lessons from Anthropology
Kinship and Cognition: Genealogy and the Meaning of Kinship Terms
Anthropologists concerned with formal semantic analysis have overwhelmingly accepted the notion that the referential universe of kinship terms is genealogically constrained, while those concerned with a more discursive and symbolic approach have been equally consistent in rejecting that constraint. Formal analysts have typically defended their view by citing (semantic) psychological arguments, i.e., ones focusing on how the mental states and cogn…
Communicating Racism: Ethnic Prejudice in Thought and Talk
On Acquiring Social Categories: Cognitive Development and Anthropological Wisdom
Identification des processus cognitifs a l'oeuvre dans la classification sociale, notamment en ce qui concerne la prise de conscience et la representation chez les jeunes enfants des categories raciales et ethniques. Dans l'optique d'une anthropologie cognitive l'A. revise certaines approches du developpement cognitif en relativisant l'importance du contexte culturel non pas au plan des classifications sociales mais au stade de l'acquisition des …
The Body Silent
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Tradition as Truth and Communication: A Cognitive Description of Traditional Discourse. Pascal Boyer
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Shades of Black: Diversity in African‐American Identity . William E. Cross, Jr
Toward a topography of mind: An introduction to domain specificity
Over the past decades, a major challenge to a widely accepted view of the human mind has developed across several disciplines. According to a long predominant view, human beings are endowed with a general set of reasoning abilities that they bring to bear on any cognitive task, whatever its specific content. Thus, many have argued, a common set of processes apply to all thought, whether it involves solving mathematical problems, learning natural …
Is the acquisition of social categories based on domain-specific competence or on knowledge transfer?
The understanding of some conceptual domains is clearly helped by a domainspecific competence, as many of the chapters in this volume establish. This is the case for middle-sized objects physics (Carey & Spelke), living kind classification (Atran, Keil), theory of mind (Gopnik & Wellman, Leslie), and numerosity (R. Gelman & Brenneman). Other conceptual domains lack such an underlying domain-specific competence, including, for instance, astronomy,…
Mapping the mind: Domain Specificity in Cognition and Culture
Mapping the Mind: Domain Specificity In Cognition And Culture
Preface Domain specificity: an introduction Lawrence Hirschfeld and Susan Gelman Part I. General/Theoretical Approaches: 1. The modularity of thought Dan Sperber 2. Domain specificity and cultural variation are not inconsistent: lessons from number and music Rochel Gelman and Kimberly Brenneman Part II. Are Domains Theories?: 3. The theory theory Alison Gopkin and Henry Wellman 4. Thinking by children and scientists: false analogies and neglected…
Ethnobiological Classification: Principles of Categorization of Plants and Animals in Traditional Societies. BRENT Berlin
Race in the Making: Cognition, Culture, and the Child's Construction of Human Kinds
Race in the Making provides a new understanding of how people conceptualize social categories and shows why this knowledge is so readily recruited to create and maintain systems of unequal power. Hirschfeld argues that knowledge of race is not derived from observations of physical difference nor does it develop in the same way as knowledge of other social categories. Instead, his central claim is that racial thinking is the product of a special-p…
The Conceptual Politics of Race: Lessons from Our Children
Peer Reviewed
Peer Prejudice and Discrimination: Evolutionary, Cultural, and Developmental Dynamics (Book)
La règle de la goutte de sang ou comment l'idée de race vient aux enfants
Hirschfeld Lawrence A. La règle de la goutte de sang ou comment l'idée de race vient aux enfants. In: L'Homme, 1999, tome 39 n°150. De la différence et de l'exlcusion. pp. 15-39
Race et réductionnisme: Réponse à Georges Guille-Escuret
Je remercie Georges Guille-Escuret pour la lecture attentive de mon récent article paru dans L’Homme. Nous sommes d’accord sur le fait qu’il y a un certain nombre de questions qui méritent d’être débattues, et qui y étaient soulevées. Nous divergeons, cependant, quant à la meilleure façon d’interpréter les données dont j’ai fait état. Avant de répondre aux critiques de Georges Guille-Escuret, je voudrais d’abord dissiper, pour lui et pour les lec…
The Inside Story
How We Think They Think: Anthropological Approaches to Cognition, Memory, and Literacy. Maurice E. F. Bloch. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.205 pp.Explaining Culture:. Naturalistic Approach. Dan Sperber. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1996. 175 pp.Cognitive Theory of Cultural Meaning. Claudia Strauss and Naomi Quinn. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 323 pp.Mind as Action. James V. Wertsch. New York: Oxford University Press, 19…
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