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Bradd Shore

Anthropology

#136

World Rank

#213

Historical Rank

#75

USA Rank

Cultural Anthropology

#44

World Rank

#60

Historical Rank

#25

USA Rank

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PhD Anthropology University of Chicago
Masters Anthropology University of Chicago
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Bradd Shore is an American cultural anthropologist who is best known as a leading authority on Samoan culture and a foundational theorist of the cultural models school of cognitive and psychological anthropology. He is the Goodrich C. White Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Emory University and is a former Department Chair. He is the former Director of the Emory Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life and is also a past President of the Society for Psychological Anthropology .

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Bradd Shore's Published Works

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Culture in Mind: Cognition, Culture, and the Problem of Meaning (1996) (413)
Sala'ilua, a Samoan Mystery (1982) (190)
Twice-born, once conceived: Meaning construction and cultural cognition. (1991) (81)
Taking Culture Seriously (2002) (32)
A Samoan theory of action : social control and social order in a Polynesian paradox (1977) (32)
Human Ambivalence and the Structuring of Moral Values (1990) (29)
Mana and Tapu (2019) (24)
5. Sexuality and gender in Samoa: conceptions and missed conceptions (1992) (24)
Ghosts and Government: A Structural Analysis of Alternative Institutions for Conflict Management in Samoa (1978) (23)
Making Time for Family: Schemas for Long-Term Family Memory (2009) (17)
Paradox Regained: Freeman's Margaret Mead and Samoa (1983) (14)
Keeping the Conversation Going: An Interview with Jerome Bruner (1997) (13)
A View from the Islands: Spatial Cognition in the Western Pacific (2014) (10)
Marginal Play: Sport at the Borderlands of Time and Space (1994) (8)
Spiritual Work, Memory Work: Revival and Recollection at Salem Camp Meeting (2008) (8)
Emotion: Culture, Psychology, Biology (1993) (7)
Human Diversity and Human Nature. The Life and Times of a False Dichotomy (2000) (6)
Strange Fate of Holism (1999) (5)
Reading Samoans through Tahitians (2005) (5)
The landscape of family memory (2018) (4)
Is Language a Prisonhouse (1987) (4)
Obituary: Sir Raymond Firth (1901–2002) (2002) (3)
Knowledge in formation: The machine-modeled frame of mind (1996) (3)
A Response by Bradd Shore (1983) (3)
Unconsilience: Rethinking the Two-Cultures Conundrum in Anthropology (2011) (2)
What Culture Means, How Culture Means (1998) (2)
Wrapping In Images: Tattooing in Polynesia (1997) (2)
Totem as practically reason: Food for thought (1989) (2)
Reply to Derek Freeman's Review of Sala'ilua: A Samoan Mystery (1984) (2)
LOADING THE BASES (1990) (1)
ADOPTION, ALLIANCE, AND POLITICAL MOBILITY IN SAMOA (2019) (1)
The Absurd Side of Power in Samoa (2021) (1)
Anthropology as Anthropology: Reply to O'Meara (1990) (1)
Review of Oceania: The Native Cultures of Australia and the Pacific Islands, by Douglas Oliver (1991) (0)
Shakespeare and theory in perspective (2021) (0)
Contributors to this Issue (2011) (0)
A Dialogue on Dialogue (1997) (0)
Beyond the Post-Modern Mind by Huston Smith New York, Crossroad, 1982. 201 pp. $14.95 (1983) (0)
Do Kama: Person and Myth in the Melanesian World. By Leenhardt Maurice. Translated by Gulati Basia Miller. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1979. xxxiii + 205 pages. $15.00. (1980) (0)
Remembering Jerome Bruner: A series of tributes to Jerome “Jerry” Bruner, who died in 2016 at the age of 100, reflects the seminal contributions that led him to be known as a co-founder of the cognitive revolution (2017) (0)
The long way home (2021) (0)
Out of Tune , Review: Bradd Shore (1992) (0)
Revolutions (2021) (0)
Culture and Mind: Cultural Models in Cognition (2005) (0)
A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology (2013) (0)
Navigators of the Contemporary: Why Ethnography Matters David A. Westbrook. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 160 pp. (2013) (0)
The Lau of Malaita. 1987. Produced and directed by Leslie Woodhead (1989) (0)
Fieldwork in the Library (Book Review) (1995) (0)
10. Time Travel (2011) (0)
Introduction (2021) (0)
Anthropology and the Cognitive Challenge (2014) (0)
Communicative Barriers to Samoans' Training and Employment in the U.S. (1984) (0)
A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology. David Kronenfeld, Giovanni Bennardo, Victor C. de Munck, and Michael D. Fischer, eds. Wiley‐Blackwell. 2011. x + 607 pp. (2013) (0)
Just nothing (2021) (0)
Shakespeare, in theory (2021) (0)
A Cognitive Theory of Cultural Meaning. Claudia Strauss , Naomi Quinn (1999) (0)
Classic Anthropology: Critical Essays: 1944‐1996 (2000) (0)
To see and not to see (2021) (0)
Ritual frames of mind (1990) (0)
Rapanui: Tradition and Survival on Easter Island. Grant McCall. (1982) (0)
CHAPTER THIRTEEN. The Esthetics of Social Context: Dual Organization and Expressive Culture (1982) (0)
Giovanni Bennardo, Language, space, and social relationships: A foundational cultural model in Polynesia . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 371. Hb. $110. (2011) (0)
Foreword (2020) (0)
Linguistics:The Play of Musement. Thomas A. Sebeok (1983) (0)
INTERPRETATION UNDER FIRE (2016) (0)
Review of From Grammar to Politics: Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village, by Alessandro Duranti (1996) (0)
Fieldwork in the Library: A Guide to Anthropology and Related Area Studies (Book Review) (1995) (0)
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Conclusions: Structure and Event in Sala'ilua (1982) (0)
And the flesh was made word (2021) (0)
CHAPTER SIX. Titles: The Articulation of an Aristocracy (1982) (0)
CHAPTER FIVE. Fa'alupega and Fono: The Framework of a Local Political Order (1982) (0)
General and Theoretical: Cultural Bias. Mary Douglas. (1979) (0)
Just for play (2021) (0)
The body politic, the body poetic (2021) (0)
BRADD SHORE (2002) (0)
Shakespeare and Social Theory (2021) (0)

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