Eviatar Zerubavel
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Time Maps
In a pioneering attempt to map the structure of our collective memory, Zerubavel considers the cognitive patterns we use to organize the past in our minds, the mental strategies that help us string together unrelated events into coherent and meaningful narratives.
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The Fine Line
Eviatar Zerubavel argues that most of the distinctions we make in our daily lives and in our culture are social constructs. He questions the notion that a clear line can be drawn to separate one time or object or concept from another, and presents witty and provocative counterexamples in defense of ambiguity and anomaly.
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Terra Cognita
Most of us are fascinated by the conventional storybook account of Christopher Columbus' heroic discovery of America in 1492. Yet, should the credit for discovering America go to a man who insisted it was but a few islands off the shores of China?
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Social Mindscapes
Cognitive science addresses cognition on two levels: individual and universal. To fill the gap between the Romantic vision of the solitary thinker and the cognitive-psychological view revolving around a search for universal foundations of cognition, Zerubavel charts a social realm of mind, one focused on conventional, normative aspects of thinking.
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