ANTC25H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Perspectivism
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Toward an anthropological theory of mind tanya luhrman: theory of mind, luhrman and others say that the idea of the mind comes with a lot of baggage that when we think of other ideas then we"re entering this already enclosed space, it"s a universal developmental milestone (it"s when a child understands that individuals can hold their thoughts that can be very different from other people, experiment: child and the mother watch the experimenter hide a toy and after the mother leave, the experimenter moves the toy and when the mother comes back, the experimenter would ask where the toy is? (younger children will point to the second stop, but older children will understand that the mother doesn"t know about the new stop and will point to the old spot, she says that maybe there"s ideas that are culturally specific (euro american cultural values, theory of mind implies: