Re: Reading pictures??

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There are some references in the chapter on "Cognition" in Cultural
anthropology: a perspective on the human condition (3/ed, Mayfield, 1995), by
Schultz & Lavenda. Try especially Cole & Scribner (1974), Culture and thought: a
psychological introduction (Wiley).

For what it's worth: In Aymara (Bolivia), if you have a picture of, say, a
house, and you ask an Aymara speaker "What is this" (Akax kunasa?) you get "It
looks like a house" (Utajamawa.), not "It's a house" (Utawa.). The reason is
that in Aymara only the real thing can be a house- a picture is not the real
thing.

Ron Kephart
University of North Florida

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