Cultural Models: Their Nature and Applications, Part I (SASci) - Lowe

Cultural Models: Their Nature and Applications, Part I (SASci) 

CHAIRS: KRONENFELD, David B. (UCR, Kronenfeld Design) and ANDERSON, Eugene N. (UCR) 

KRONENFELD, David (UCR/Kronenfeld Design) One Way to Think about Cultural Models 

STRAUSS, Claudia (Pitzer Coll) De-homogenizing Cultural Models of Immigration 

GATEWOOD, John B. (Lehigh U) and LOWE, John W. (Cultural Analysis) Developing, Verifying, and Delivering a Cultural Model of Credit Unions: A Tale of Two Applied Studies 

CHRISOMALIS, Stephen (Wayne State U) Diachronic Approaches to Analyzing Cultural Models

 

Cultural Models: Their Nature and Applications, Part III (SASci) 

CHAIRS: KRONENFELD, David B. (UCR, Kronenfeld Design) and ANDERSON, Eugene N. (UCR) 

THOMAS, Michael (Wayne State U) Machine Intelligence in the Chinese Anthropocene: Using Cultural Models to Validate Concepts in Applied Anthropology 

DUFF MORTON, Gregory (Watson Inst) Luck and Blood: Modeling Ownership as a Form of Action in Northeastern Brazil

 

ABSTRACT:

KRONENFELD, David B. (UCR, Kronenfeld Design) and ANDERSON, Eugene N. (UCR) Cultural Models Their Nature and Applications, Parts I-III. We explore a ‘cultural models’ approach to culturally structured or interpreted action.  Cultural models can be defined as collectively held, distributed cognitive structures that serve as a repository of cultural knowledge for a cultural community.   Our participants will discuss different ways of theorizing cultural models, different types of cultural models and methods for studying them, the role of cultural models in anthropology, 99 SESSION ABSTRACTS and the value of cultural models for applied research.  Examples include diachronic change and synchronic work on migration, Maya farming, service provision, psychotherapy, credit union organization, tourism and economic development, ownership of intangibles, and machine management. 

Session took place in Vancouver, B.C. Canada at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 29 - April 2, 2016.