Category Coherence in Cross-Cultural Perspective

摘要: Abstract Cognitive psychologists and cognitive anthropologists alike have been concerned with how the human mind divides entities in world into categories. recently begun approaching this issue by asking a question long of interest to anthropologists: To what extent are categories given structure environment, they created through constructive processes on part categorizer? Despite shared question, relatively little data available anthropological literature has become familiar psychologists. Psychologists stand benefit from greater acquaintance literature, since cross-cultural studies often addressed relative roles environment vs observer more directly than psychological have. Furthermore, provide unique opportunity separate culture-specific universal aspects categorization. This paper sketches positions nature category formation that put forth literature. It then reviews detail four areas research relevant evaluating perspectives. The cross- cultural substantial constraints for theories coherence.