Re: [xmca] A Concrete Psychological Investigation of Ifá Divination

[Huw Lloyd <huw.softdesigns@gmail.com>]

On 16 March 2013 03:02, Martin Packer <packer@duq.edu> wrote:

> Another recently published text that people might find interesting - and
> it is in a journal that most of you probably don't subscribe to! -  is this:
>
> "A Concrete Psychological Investigation of Ifá Divination"  Martin Packer
> & Silvia Tibaduiza
> <
> http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/psicologia/article/viewFile/28119/37798
> >
>
> This was based on Silvia's undergraduate senior thesis, and it's just a
> small step into the complex issues of exploring reasoning in different
> cultural settings. In several respects our conclusions mirror those of Ed
> Hutchins in 1979:
>
> "I conclude that while Trobrianders' beliefs about the world are, in some
> domains, very different from our beliefs, it is unwarranted to infer from a
> difference in content that the way Trobrianders reason about what they
> believe is substantially different from the way we reason about what we
> believe."
>
> ...though I'm by no means satisfied that looking for similarities as we
> (and Ed) did is the best approach to the issue.
>

V. interesting, thank you Martin.  I see this as a good example of
approaching my current question, although one could hope for more pointing
out of "specific constellations of psychological capabilities" --  a
challenge!

Huw



>
> Martin
>
> Hutchins, E. (1979). Reasoning in Trobriand discourse. Quarterly
> Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, 1(2), 13-17.
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