Sociološki Pregled (Jan 2004)

Cognitive aspects of anthropology of ethnicity

  • Škorić Marko

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5937/socpreg0402281S
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 38, no. 1-2
pp. 281 – 307

Abstract

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This paper reviews the current trends in anthropology of ethnicity, with special reference to cognitive aspects. It is argued that domain-specific cognition is fundamentally biased by human evolution, and that human cognition of ethnicity may be essentialist.

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