Constraints on conceptual development
Subtitle: a case study of the acquisition of folkbiological and folksociological knowledge in Madagascar
By: Rita Astuti, Gregg E.A. Solomon, Susan Carey ; with commentary by Tim Ingold, Patricia H. Miller.
Contributors: Solomon, Gregg E. A.; Carey, Susan.; Ingold, Tim, 1948-; Miller, Patricia H.
Series: Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development -- serial no. 277, v.69, no. 3; Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development -- no. 277.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: Group identity -- Madagascar; Identity (Psychology) -- Madagascar
Description: Focuses on Malagasy children's and adults' conceptual representations of human and animal kind, as well as biological inheritance, innate potential, and family relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: I. Introduction -- II. -- Study 1.; title: Adults : family resemblance and group identity -- -- II. Study 2.; title: Children : family resemblance and group identity -- -- III. Study 3.; title: Adolescents : family resemblane and group identity -- -- V. Study 4.; title: Reasoning about animals and species kind -- -- VI. General discussion -- Commentaries; title: Conceptual development in Madagascar : a critical comment -- Tim Ingold; title: Cognitive development here, there, and everywhere -- Patricia H. Miller.