Roy D'Andrade
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Roy Goodwin D'Andrade is one of the founders of the theory of cognitive anthropology
.
Born in New Jersey
, D'Andrade matriculated at Rutgers University
but left to fulfill his military service. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Connecticut
. He then studied in the Department of Social Relations
at Harvard, from which he received his PhD in Social Anthropology
. He taught at Stanford University
from 1962-1969. He then moved to the University of California, San Diego
, where he was professor of Anthropology until 2003 and served as department chair for three separate terms. He now teaches in the Anthropology department at the University of Connecticut
.
His research interests have ranged widely, including African-American family structure, personality, color perception, and mathematical models for reconstructing mitochondrial lineages. A unifying theme in much of his work, however, is the problem of identifying and describing cultural models (also known as folk models, or the often implicit, culturally shared ways that people assume the world works); in recent years he is particularly concerned with conceptualizing cultural models through schema
theory. In 2002 D'Andrade was awarded the NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing from the National Academy of Sciences
.
Cognitive anthropology
Cognitive anthropology is an approach within cultural anthropology in which scholars seek to explain patterns of shared knowledge, cultural innovation, and transmission over time and space using the methods and theories of the cognitive sciences often through close collaboration with historians,...
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Born in New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
, D'Andrade matriculated at Rutgers University
Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
but left to fulfill his military service. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Connecticut
University of Connecticut
The admission rate to the University of Connecticut is about 50% and has been steadily decreasing, with about 28,000 prospective students applying for admission to the freshman class in recent years. Approximately 40,000 prospective students tour the main campus in Storrs annually...
. He then studied in the Department of Social Relations
Social relation
In social science, a social relation or social interaction refers to a relationship between two , three or more individuals . Social relations, derived from individual agency, form the basis of the social structure. To this extent social relations are always the basic object of analysis for social...
at Harvard, from which he received his PhD in Social Anthropology
Social anthropology
Social Anthropology is one of the four or five branches of anthropology that studies how contemporary human beings behave in social groups. Practitioners of social anthropology investigate, often through long-term, intensive field studies , the social organization of a particular person: customs,...
. He taught at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
from 1962-1969. He then moved to the University of California, San Diego
University of California, San Diego
The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...
, where he was professor of Anthropology until 2003 and served as department chair for three separate terms. He now teaches in the Anthropology department at the University of Connecticut
University of Connecticut
The admission rate to the University of Connecticut is about 50% and has been steadily decreasing, with about 28,000 prospective students applying for admission to the freshman class in recent years. Approximately 40,000 prospective students tour the main campus in Storrs annually...
.
His research interests have ranged widely, including African-American family structure, personality, color perception, and mathematical models for reconstructing mitochondrial lineages. A unifying theme in much of his work, however, is the problem of identifying and describing cultural models (also known as folk models, or the often implicit, culturally shared ways that people assume the world works); in recent years he is particularly concerned with conceptualizing cultural models through schema
Schema (psychology)
A schema , in psychology and cognitive science, describes any of several concepts including:* An organized pattern of thought or behavior.* A structured cluster of pre-conceived ideas....
theory. In 2002 D'Andrade was awarded the NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing from the National Academy of Sciences
United States National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine." As a national academy, new members of the organization are elected annually by current members, based on their distinguished and...
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Select Publications
- D'Andrade, Roy G. (1984). Cultural meaning systems. In R. A. Shweder & R. LeVine (Eds.), Culture theory: Essays on mind, self, and emotion (pp. 88-119). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- D'Andrade, Roy G. (1986). Three scientific world views and the covering law model. In D. W. Fiske & R. A. Shweder (Eds.), Metatheory in social science: Pluralisms and subjectivities (pp. 19 - 39). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- D'Andrade, Roy G. (1987). Modal responses and cultural expertise. American Behavioral Scientist, 31(2), 194 - 202.
- D'Andrade, Roy G. (1989). Culturally based reasoning. In A. R. H. Gellatly, D. Rogers & J. A. Sloboda (Eds.), Cognition and social worlds (pp. 132-143). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
- D'Andrade, Roy G. (1992). Schemas and motivation. In R. G. D'Andrade & C. Strauss (Eds.), Human motives and cultural models (pp. 23-44). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- D'Andrade, Roy G. (1995). Moral models in anthropology. Current Anthropology, 36(3).
- D'Andrade, Roy G. (2001). A cognitivist's view of the units debate in cultural anthropology. Cross-Cultural Research, 35(2), 242 - 257.