This text provides an account of how anthropological methods can be combined with cognitive theory to produce a new reading of cognitive science. Its theoretical insights are grounded in an extended analysis of ship navigation - its computational basis, its historical roots, its social organisation, and the details of its implementation in actual practice aboard large ships. The result is an unusual interdisciplinary approach to cognition in culturally constituted activities outside the laboratory - in the wild.
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This text provides an account of how anthropological methods can be combined with cognitive theory to produce a new reading of cognitive science. Its theoretical insights are grounded in an extended analysis of ship navigation - its computational basis, its historical roots, its social organisation, and the details of its implementation in actual practice aboard large ships. The result is an unusual interdisciplinary approach to cognition in culturally constituted activities outside the laboratory - in the wild.
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