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Are folk taxonomies “memes”?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1998

Dan Sperber
Dan Sperber
Affiliation:
CREA, Ecole Polytechnique, 75005 Paris, France sperber@poly.polytechnique.fr
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Abstract

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This commentary stresses the importance of Atran's work for the development of a new cognitive anthropology, but questions both his particular use of Dawkins's “meme” model and the general usefulness of the meme model for understanding folk-taxonomies as cultural phenomena.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , August 1998, pp. 589 - 590
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© 1998 Cambridge University Press