One potential source of folkbiological knowledge loss is changing patterns of interaction with the natural world stemming from ‘‘modernizing’’ material change. This article compares models of plant knowledge among age-matched groups of children and adults in two communities of a municipality located in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. Use of the Cultural Consensus Model (CCM), analysis of resi...

introduction: this study compared the cleaning efficiency of mtwo, race and medin nickel-titanium (niti) rotary instruments. materials and methods: sixty mandibular molar mesial roots were selected with angle curvatures between 25-35 degrees and divided into three groups; each containing 20 teeth. canals were prepared with the rotary files and irrigated with 2.5% naocl solution after each instr...

This chapter is concerned with the acquisition and use of relational categories. By relational category, we mean a category whose membership is determined by a common relational structure rather than by common properties. For instance, for X to be a bridge, X must connect two other entities or points; for X to be a carnivore, X must eat animals. Relational categories contrast with entity catego...

=521942), 2006. 39. Rosen, S. P., After proliferation: what if more states go nuclear. Foreign Affairs, 2006, 85, 9–14. 40. Bang, M., Medin, D. L. and Atran, S., Cultural mosaics and mental models of nature. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2007, 104,

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Beller, Bender, and Medin should be congratulated for their generous attempt at expressive academic therapy for troubled interdisciplinary relationships. In this essay, I suggest that a negative answer to the central question ("Should anthropology be part of cognitive science?") is not necessarily distressing, that in retrospect the breakup seems fairly predictable, and that disenchantment with...

A model is proposed that elegantly unifies the traditional exemplar and prototype models. These two models are extreme cases of the proposed varying abstraction model. The unifying model further makes room for many new intermediate pseudo-exemplar models. A preliminary analysis using Medin and Schaffer’s (1978) 5-4 structure pointed to such an intermediate model that outperformed the prototype ...