Strauss, Claudia; Quinn, Naomi. 1997. A cognitive theory of cultural meaning. Book. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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Common introduction (over 130 pages) followed by three studies by Quinn and one by StraussThe book takes a connectionist approach to anthropology deriving from work on schemas and scenarios.Start with assertion that most anthropologists would subscribe to both competing views of culture:"'cultures' are not bounded, coherent, timeless systems of meanings (as we caution our advanced students) and ... human action rests on networks of often highly stable, pervasive, and motivating assumptions that can be widely shared within social groups while variable between them (as we teach undergraduates in Anthropology 101." (p. 4) --> the problem for anthropology is