Title: Constraints on conceptual development : a case study of the acquistion of folkbiological and folksociological knowledge in Madagascar /
Authors: Astuti, Rita.; Solomon, Gregg E. A.; Carey, Susan.; Ingold, Tim, 1948-; Miller, Patricia H.; Solomon, Gregg E. A.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Child Development; Psychology; Identity (Psychology) Madagascar.; Group identity Madagascar.; Identity (Psychology) Madagascar.; Madagascar
Abstract: Focuses on Malagasy children's and adults' conceptual representations of human and animal kind, as well as biological inheritance, innate potential, and family relations.
Contents: I. Introduction -- II. Study 1. Adults : family resemblance and group identity -- III. Study 2. Children : family resemblance and group identity -- IV. Study 3. Adolescents : family resemblance and group identity -- V. Study 4. Reasoning about animals and species kind -- VI. General discussion -- Commentaries -- Conceptual development in Madagascar : a critical comment / Tim Ingold -- Cognitive development here, there, and everywhere / Patricia H. Miller.