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On 16 March 2013 03:02, Martin Packer <packer@duq.edu> wrote: > Another recently published text that people might find interesting - and > it is in a journal that most of you probably don't subscribe to! - is this: > > "A Concrete Psychological Investigation of Ifá Divination" Martin Packer > & Silvia Tibaduiza > < > http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/psicologia/article/viewFile/28119/37798 > > > > This was based on Silvia's undergraduate senior thesis, and it's just a > small step into the complex issues of exploring reasoning in different > cultural settings. In several respects our conclusions mirror those of Ed > Hutchins in 1979: > > "I conclude that while Trobrianders' beliefs about the world are, in some > domains, very different from our beliefs, it is unwarranted to infer from a > difference in content that the way Trobrianders reason about what they > believe is substantially different from the way we reason about what we > believe." > > ...though I'm by no means satisfied that looking for similarities as we > (and Ed) did is the best approach to the issue. > V. interesting, thank you Martin. I see this as a good example of approaching my current question, although one could hope for more pointing out of "specific constellations of psychological capabilities" -- a challenge! Huw > > Martin > > Hutchins, E. (1979). Reasoning in Trobriand discourse. Quarterly > Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, 1(2), 13-17. > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca