Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Explanatory Coexistence
Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Explanatory Coexistence
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解释性共存的跨学科和跨文化视角
作者：
R. Watson;J. Busch;C. Legare
自然和超自然的解释被用来解释相同的事件在一些可预测的和普遍的方式。然而，人们对不同文化生态的差异如何影响人们整合自然和超自然解释的方式知之甚少。在这里，我们研究解释共存的三个存在性唤起领域的人类思想：疾病，死亡和人类的起源，使用定性数据在瓦努阿图塔纳进行的采访。瓦努阿图是一个美拉尼西亚群岛，由于缺乏工业化以及基督教和西方教育的引进相对较晚，为研究解释性共存的变化提供了一个理想的文化背景。我们主张整合认知科学和人类学的跨学科方法，为解释性共存的研究提供信息。
Natural and supernatural explanations are used to interpret the same events in a number of predictable and universal ways. Yet little is known about how variation in diverse cultural ecologies influences how people integrate natural and supernatural explanations. Here, we examine explanatory coexistence in three existentially arousing domains of human thought: illness, death, and human origins using qualitative data from interviews conducted in Tanna, Vanuatu. Vanuatu, a Melanesian archipelago, provides a cultural context ideal for examining variation in explanatory coexistence due to the lack of industrialization and the relatively recent introduction of Christianity and Western education. We argue for the integration of interdisciplinary methodologies from cognitive science and anthropology to inform research on explanatory coexistence.
影响因子：
1.8
作者：
Medin D;Waxman S;Woodring J;Washinawatok K
通讯作者：
Washinawatok K