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Are folk taxonomies “memes”?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 August 1998
Abstract
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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