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Culture and inferenceBook 1980 • Hutchins, Edwin
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
In this work Hutchins explores the nature of reasoning in a 'primitive' society (i.e., the Trobriand Islands), by employing a form of cognitive theory that has been developed during the past twenty years. This theory is applied to public litigation i...