The Folk Classification of Ceramics
A Study of Cognitive Prototypes
- 1st Edition - January 28, 1981
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Willett Kempton
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 3 3 5 6 8 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 1 5 8 8 2 - 4
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Request a sales quoteThe Folk Classification of Ceramics: A Study of Cognitive Prototypes provides a general understanding of folk classification that compares cognitive structures across cultures through anthropological field studies. The topic of this book, the structure and use of folk categories, is relevant to all cognitive sciences and is distinctly anthropological in examining variation among subcultural groups and change through time. The study of variation and change illuminates aspects of category structure that would not be envisioned from experiment or introspection. This text concentrates on the study of folk classification of artifacts on ceramic vessels, focusing on gross social groupings such as “potters” or “traditional villages”. Some topics discussed include the exploring interview techniques; structure of vessel categories; subcultural variation; and semantic change. This publication is a good reference to students studying folk classification and other disciplines such as cognitive psychology, linguistic semantics, and artificial intelligence.
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1 IntroductionFolk ClassificationStructures of MeaningInadequacies of Traditional ApproachesPrototype and Graded Extension2 Exploring Interview TechniquesChapter SummaryHedges, Boots, and ShoesSubcultural Variation in Mexican CeramicsFolk Definitions and Dictionary DefinitionsElicitation Problems with ObjectsThe Drawing SheetsGrades of Membership ElicitedSelection of Informants and Villages3 Structure of Vessel CategoriesChapter SummaryReplication in Successive InterviewsExpected Subcultural Effects on Ceramic ClassificationWomenPottersTraditional VillagesOlder InformantsGeneral PatternsWeights and MeasuresMeasuring Category DifferencesMeasuring Subcultural Variation5 Semantic ChangeChapter SummaryChange Beginning at Low MembershipContrast EmergingInternational Context of Semantic ChangeNative Recognition of Variation and Change6 Conclusions
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 28, 1981
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 256
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780124335684
- eBook ISBN: 9780323158824
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