{"id":1198,"date":"1998-08-20T14:48:58","date_gmt":"1998-08-20T12:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2018-01-16T00:34:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T23:34:53","slug":"dan-sperber-1998-are-folk-taxonomies-memescommentary-on-scott-atran-1998-folk-biology-and-the-anthropology-of-science-cognitive-universals-and-cultural-particulars-behavioral-and-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/?p=1198","title":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/1998_are-folk-taxonomies-memes.pdf\"> Dan Sperber (1998) <b>Are Folk Taxonomies &#8220;memes&#8221;?<\/b> Commentary on Scott Atran (1998) &#8216;Folk biology and the anthropology of science: Cognitive universals and cultural particulars&#8217;. <i> Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21<\/i>(4), 589-590.<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>Abstract<\/strong>: This commentary stresses the importance of Atran\u2019s work for\u00a0the development of a new cognitive anthropology, but questions both his\u00a0particular use of Dawkins\u2019s \u201cmeme\u201d model and the general usefulness of\u00a0the meme model for understanding folk-taxonomies as cultural phenomena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}