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Measuring cognitive universals and cultural particulars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1998

A. Kimball Romney
A. Kimball Romney
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-5100 akromney@uci.edu www.socsci.uci.edu/mbs/personnel/romney/romney.html
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Abstract

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A reanalysis of Atran's data is presented in which the comparison between Itzaj and Michigan animal names is represented in spatial rather than taxonomic form. Similarity among all subjects is also represented in spatial terms. Finally, culturally shared knowledge between the two cultures is shown to be about ten times larger than the culture-specific component unique to each culture.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , August 1998 , pp. 586 - 587
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© 1998 Cambridge University Press