Publications

Publication details [#3446]

Frake, Charles O. 1962. The ethnographic study of cognitive systems. In Gladwin, T. and W.C. Sturtevant, eds. Anthropology and human behavior. The Anthropological Society of Washington. pp. 72–85.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

culture | ethnography | language and thought

Annotation

F. argues that ordering ethnographic observations solely according to an investigator's preconceived categories obscures the real content of culture. An ethnographic/linguistic approach is proposed.

Reprints

Frake, Charles O. 1980. In Frake, Charles O., ed. Language and cultural description. Selected and introduced by Anwar S. Dil. Stanford UP. pp. 1–17.