Hierarchical Thinking, Grammatical Structures, and the Originary Scene.
In this article I argue that our innate prejudice for processing information in hierarchical terms can be traced back to the originary scene. Hierarchical thinking is anthropologically rather than cognitively grounded insofar as it is contained within the structure of deferral present in representat...
| Published in: | Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology Vol. 25; no. 2; pp. 1 - 18 |
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Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology
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