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  title info:
    title: Cognition in the wild
  name:
    name part: Hutchins, Edwin.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    place:
      place term: Cambridge, Mass
    publisher: MIT Press
    date issued: ©1995
    date issued: 1995
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 381 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: Edwin Hutchins combines his background as an anthropologist and an open-ocean racing sailor and navigator in this account of how anthropological methods can be combined with cognitive theory to produce a new reading of cognitive science. His theoretical insights are grounded in an extended analysis of ship navigation - its computational basis, its historical roots, its social organization, and the details of its implementation in actual practice aboard large ships. The result is an unusual interdisciplinary approach to cognition in culturally constituted activities outside the laboratory - "in the wild." Hutchins examines a set of phenomena that have fallen between the established disciplines of psychology and anthropology, bringing to light a new set of relationships between culture and cognition. The standard view is that culture affects the cognition of individuals. Hutchins argues instead that cultural activity systems have cognitive properties of their own that differ from the cognitive properties of the individuals who participate in them. Each action for bringing a large naval vessel into port, for example, is informed by culture; thus the navigation team can be seen as a cognitive and computational system. Introducing life in the Navy and work on the bridge, Hutchins makes a clear distinction between the cognitive properties of an individual and the cognitive properties of a system. In striking contrast to the usual laboratory tasks of research in cognitive science, he adopts David Marr's paradigm and applies the principal metaphor of cognitive science - cognition as computation - to the navigation task. After comparing modern Western navigation with the method practiced in Micronesia, Hutchins explores the computational and cognitive properties of systems that involve multiple individuals. He then turns to an analysis of learning or change in the organization of cognitive systems at several scales. Hutchins's conclusion illustrates the costs of ignoring the…
  note: Edwin Hutchins.
  subject:
    topic: Cognition
    topic: Social aspects
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Cognition and culture
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Navigation
    topic: Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Psychology, Naval
  subject:
    topic: Distributed cognition
  classification: BF311 .H88 1995eb
  classification: 153
  identifier: 9780262275972
  identifier: 026227597X
  identifier: 0585021864
  identifier: 9780585021867
  identifier: 9780262581462
  identifier: 0262581469
  identifier: 0262082314
  identifier: 9780262082310
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: OCoLC-P
    record creation date: 000804
    record change date: 20221121162534.9
    record identifier: in00004601796
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng