Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Immanuel Kant among the Tenejapans: Anthropology as Empirical Philosophy

1994; Wiley; Volume: 22; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/eth.1994.22.1.02a00010

1548-1352

Stephen C. Levinson, Penelope Brown,

Cultural Differences and Values

EthosVolume 22, Issue 1 p. 3-41 Immanuel Kant among the Tenejapans: Anthropology as Empirical Philosophy STEPHEN C. LEVINSON, STEPHEN C. LEVINSON Director Cognitive Anthropology Research Group at the Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.Search for more papers by this authorPENELOPE BROWN, PENELOPE BROWN Research Fellow Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.Search for more papers by this author STEPHEN C. LEVINSON, STEPHEN C. LEVINSON Director Cognitive Anthropology Research Group at the Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.Search for more papers by this authorPENELOPE BROWN, PENELOPE BROWN Research Fellow Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.Search for more papers by this author First published: March 1994 https://doi.org/10.1525/eth.1994.22.1.02a00010Citations: 33AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL REFERENCES CITED Berlin, Brent, Terence Kaufman, and Louisa Maffi 1990 Un Diccionario Basico del Tzeltal de Tenejapa, Chiapas, Mexico. Procomith Project, University of California Berkeley. Branstetter, Katherine B. 1974 Tenejapans on Clothing and Vice-Versa: The Social Significance of Clothing in a Mayan Community. Ph.D. thesis, University of California. Berkeley, Ann Arbor MI: Ann Arbor Microfilms. Broad, C. D. 1978 Kant: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Brown, Penelope 1991 Spatial Conceptualization in Tzeltal. Working Paper No. 6, Cognitive Anthropology Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. Brown, Penelope 1993 The Role of Shape in the Acquisition of Tzeltal (Mayan) Locatives: A Preliminary. Poster presented at the 25th Stanford Child Language Forum, April 1993. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Child Language Research Forum. Pp. 211– 220. Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information. Brown, Penelope, and Stephen C. Levinson 1992 ‘Left’ and ‘Right’ in Tenejapa: Investigating a Linguistic and Conceptual Gap. Zeitschrift für Phonetik, Sprachwissenschaft und Kommunikationsforschung 45 (6) 611. Brown, Penelope, and Stephen C. Levinson 1993a Shape, Orientation and Left/Right Discrimination in Tenejapa. Talk presented to the Cognitive Anthropology Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, February 1993. Brown, Penelope, and Stephen C. Levinson 1993b ‘Uphill’ and ‘Downhill’ in Tzeltal. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 3(1): 46– 74. Brown, Penelope, and Stephen C. Levinson 1993c Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Coding of Spatial Arrays: Explorations in Mayan Cognition. Working Paper No. 24, Cognitive Anthropology Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. Clark, Herbert H. 1973 Space, Time, Semantics and the Child. In Cognitive Development and the Acquisition of Language.. Timothy E. Moore, ed. Pp. 28– 64. New York: Academic Press. James Cleve, and Robert E. Frederick, eds. 1991 The Philosophy of Right and Left: Incongruent Counterparts and the Nature of Space. Dordrecht: Kluwer. Cooper, Lynn A., and Roger N. Shepard 1975 Mental Transformations in the Identification of Left and Right Hands. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 2: 503– 514. Corballis, Michael C. 1991 The Lopsided Ape: Evolution of the Generative Mind. New York: Oxford University Press. Corballis, Michael C., and Ivan L. Beale 1976 The Psychology of Left and Right. Hillsdale: Erlbaum. Corballis, Michael C., and Michael J. Morgan 1978 On the Biological Basis of Human Laterality: Evidence for a Maturational Left-Right Gradient. Behavioural and Brain Sciences 1: 261– 269. Coren, Stanley, and Clare Porac 1977 Fifty Centuries of Right Handedness: The Historical Record. Science 198(4317): 631– 632. Davidson, H. P. 1935 A Study of the Confusing Letters b, d, p, q. Journal of Genetic Psychology 47: 458– 468. DeSilva, H. 1931 A Case of a Boy Possessing an Automatic Directional Orientation. Science 73 (1893): 393– 394. Evans-Pritchard, E. E. 1956 The Nuer. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Frost, G. T. 1980 Tool Behavior and the Origin of Laterality. Journal of Human Evolution 9: 447– 459. Gardner, Martin 1967 The Ambidextrous Universe: Left, Right and the Fall of Purity. London: Penguin. Gardner, Martin 1991 The Fourth Dimension. In The Philosophy of Right and Left.. James Cleve and Robert E. Frederick, eds. Pp. 61– 74. Dordrecht: Kluwer. Gelb, Ignace J. 1952 A Study of Writing. Chicago: Chicago University Press. Goody, Jack 1977 The Domestication of the Savage Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Handyside, John 1929 Kant's Inaugural Dissertation and Early Writings on Space. Chicago: Open Court. Harris, Lauren J. 1983 Laterality of Function in the Infant: Historical and Contemporary Trends in Theory and Research. In Manual Specialization and the Developing Brain.. Gerald Young, Sidney J. Segalowitz, Carl M. Corter, and Sandra E. Trehub, eds. Pp. 177– 247. New York: Academic Press. Heilige, Joseph B. 1990 Hemispheric Asymmetry. Annual Review of Psychology 41: 55– 80. Hertz, Robert 1960 [1909] La Prééminence de la Main Droite: Étude sur la Polarité Religieuse. Translated as The Pre-eminence of the Right Hand: A Study in Religious Polarity. In ‘Death’ and The Right Hand'. Rodney and Claudia Needham, trans. Pp. 89– 113. London: Cohen and West. Houston, S. D. 1989 Maya Glyphs. London: British Museum Publications. Justeson, John S. 1989 The Representational Conventions of Mayan Hieroglyphic Writing. In Word and Image in Maya Culture.. William F. Hanks and Don S. Rice, eds. Pp. 25– 38. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. Kant, Immanuel 1991 [1768] Von dem Ersten Grunde des Unterschiedes der Gegenden im Raume (Translation ‘On the First Ground of the Distinction of Regions in Space’.) In The Philosophy of Right and Left.. James Cleve and Robert E. Frederick, eds. Pp. 27– 33. Dordrecht: Kluwer. Kendon, Adam 1988 Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Kolinsky, Régine, José Morais, Alain Content, and Luz Cary 1987 Finding Parts within Figures: A Developmental Study. Perception 16: 399– 407. Kolinsky, Régine, José Morais, and Carlos Brito Mendes 1990 Embeddedness Effects on Part Verification in Children and Unschooled Adults. Psychologica Belgica 30(1/2): 49– 64. Laughlin, Robert M. 1975 The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantan. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. Laughlin, Robert M. 1984 Tzotzil and Tzeltal: Who in the World? In Gertrude Blom: Bearing Witness.. Alex Harris and Margaret Sartor, eds. Pp. 16– 25. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Laurendeau, Monique, and Adrien Pinard 1970 The Development of the Concept of Space in the Child. New York: International Universities Press. Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 1973 [1715–16] Philosophical Writings. G. H. R. Parkinson, ed. London: Dent. de León, Lourdes. Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 1991 Space Games in Tzotzil: Creating a Context for Spatial Reference. Working Paper No. 4, Cognitive Anthropology Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 1992 Body Parts and Location in Tzotzil: Ongoing Grammaticalization. Zeitschrift fur Phonetik, Sprachwissenschaft und Kommunikationsforschung 45(6): 570– 589. Levinson, Stephen C. 1990 Figure and Ground in Mayan Spatial Description. Paper presented at the conference “Reference to Space and Time,” November 1990. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. Levinson, Stephen C. 1991 Relativity in Spatial Conception and Description. Working Paper No. 1, Cognitive Anthropology Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. Levinson, Stephen C. 1992a Primer for the Field Investigation of Spatial Description and Conception. Pragmatics 2(1): 5– 47. Levinson, Stephen C. 1992b Language and Cognition: Cognitive Consequences of Spatial Description in Guugu Yimithirr. Working Paper No. 13, Cognitive Anthropology Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. Möbius, August Ferdinand 1991 [1827] On Higher Space. In The Philosophy of Right and Left.. James Cleve and Robert E. Frederick, eds. Pp. 39– 41. Dordrecht: Kluwer. Needham, Rodney 1973 Left and Right. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Nerlich, Graham 1991 Hands, Knees, and Absolute Space. In The Philosophy of Right and Left.. James Cleve and Robert E. Frederick, eds. Pp. 151– 172. Dordrecht: Kluwer. Olson, David R. 1970 Cognitive Development: The Child's Acquisition of Diagonality. New York: Academic Press. Palmer, Stephen E. 1978 Structural Aspects of Visual Similarity. Memory and Cognition 6 (2): 91– 97. Piaget, Jean 1928 Judgement and Reasoning in the Child. London: Routledge. Rostas, Susanne 1986 From Ethos to Identity: Religious Practice as Resistance to Change in a Tzeltal Community, Tenejapa, Chiapas, Mexico. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Sussex. Scheie, Linda, and Mary Ellen Miller 1986 The Blood of Kings. London: Sotheby's. Serpell, R. 1971 Discrimination of Orientation by Zambian Children. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology 75: 312– 316. Shepard, Roger N., and Shelley Hurwitz 1985 Upward Direction and Mental Rotation. In Visual Cognition.. Steven Pinker, ed. Pp. 161– 193. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. J. J. C. Smart, ed. 1968 Problems of Space and Time. London: Macmillan. Sperber, Dan 1985 On Anthropological Knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Stephens, Laurence D. 1980 The Extension of Language Universals: Constraints on the Function of Axial Reflection in Writing Systems with Special Application to Linear B. Proceedings of the 6th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society 6: 457– 466. Stross, Brian 1976 Tzeltal Anatomical Terminology: Semantic Processes. In Mayan Linguistics, 1.. Marlys McClaran, ed. Los Angeles: University of California, American Indian Studies Center. Sutherland, N. 1960 Visual Discrimination of Orientation by Octopus: Mirror Images. British Journal of Psychology 51: 9– 18. Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth 1968 [1917] On Growth and Form, 1 and 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Weyl, Hermann 1952 Symmetry. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Yerkes, Robert M. 1943 Chimpanzees. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Young, Gerald, Sidney J. Segalowitz, Carl M. Corter, and Sandra E. Trehub 1983 Manual Specialization and the Developing Brain. New York: Academic Press. Citing Literature Volume22, Issue1March 1994Pages 3-41 ReferencesRelatedInformation