Cognitive anthropology seeks to explain patterns of shared knowledge, cultural innovation, and transmission over time and space using the methods and theories of the cognitive sciences (especially experimental psychology and evolutionary biology) often through close collaboration with historians, ethnographers, archaeologists, linguists, musicologists and other specialists engaged in the description and interpretation of cultural forms. Cognitive anthropology is concerned with what people from different groups know and how that implicit knowledge changes the way people perceive and relate to the world around them. COUNT 4
QSN1 What type of anthology deals with patterns of shared knowledge? ANS1 Cognitive QSN2 What methods and theories do cognitive anthropologists use to explain cultural innovation? ANS2 cognitive sciences QSN3 What are two examples of methods and theories of cognitive science? ANS3 experimental psychology and evolutionary biology QSN4 Cognitive anthropologists want to know how the way people perceive and related to the world around them is linked to what? ANS4 implicit knowledge