Universals of Human Thought: Some African Evidence

Preface Michael Ogbolu Okonji: African psychologist Herman A. Witkins Contributors 1. General introduction: relativism and universals Ernest Gellner Part I. Perception: 2. Pictorial perception and the problem of universals Gustav Jahoda 3. Tallensi children's drawings Meyer Fortes 4. Space and community behaviour: a discussion of the form and function of spatial order in settlements Roland Fletcher 5. Taxonomic and multi-dimensional representations of reality John Gay Part II. Cognitive Development: 6. 'Strong' and 'weak' universals: sensori-motor intelligence and concrete operations Pierre Dasen 7. Psychological differentiation Ogbolu Okonji 8. Cognitive development, education and social mobility Barbara Lloyd Part III. Language: 9. Language and learning: some observations on the linguistic determination of cognitive processes Nigel Lemon 10. The formation of relative clauses Bernard Comrie 11. Literacy and literature Ruth Finnegan 12. Review and prospectus Jerome Bruner Indexes.