This essay in the “anthropology of science” is about how cognition constrains culture in
producing science. The example is folk biology, whose cultural recurrence issues from the …

Much of children's knowledge is derived not from their direct experiences with the
environment but rather from the input of others. However, until recently, the focus in studies …

Many of our questions about religion, says the internationally renowned anthropologist
Pascal Boyer, were once mysteries, but they no longer are: we are beginning to know how to …

Essentialism is the idea that certain categories, such as" dog,"" man," or" intelligence," have
an underlying reality or true nature that gives objects their identity. Where does this idea …

Na primeira vez em que me propus a escrever este livro, tanto eu como os meus alunos sa
bíamos o que era necessário haver em um livro didático (ou pelo menos era assim que eu …

If ethnic actors represent ethnic groups as essentialized natural groups despite the fact that
ethnic essences do not exist, we must understand why. This article presents a hypothesis …

Intelligence cannot be fully or even meaningfully understood outside its cultural context.
Work that seeks to study intelligence acontextually risks the imposition of an investigator's …

This book is a scholarly overview of the modern concepts, definitions, and theories of
intellectual giftedness, and of past and current developments in the field of gifted education …

Young Children's Naive Thinking about the Biological World Page 1 Page 2 YOUNG CHILDREN'S
NAIVE THINKING ABOUT THE BIOLOGICAL WORLD Page 3 ESSAYS IN DEVELOPMENTAL …

This article describes cross-cultural and developmental research on folk biology: that is, the
study of how people conceptualize living kinds. The combination of a conceptual module for …