Constraints on Conceptual Development

This monograph unites two literatures that make very different tacit assumptions about the very nature of conceptual development.
Anthropologists' focus o... » 

This monograph unites two literatures that make very different tacit assumptions about the very nature of conceptual development.
Anthropologists' focus on the cultural construction of knowledge leads many of them (including Astuti) to expect radically different conceptual understandings across cultures.
In contrast, some cognitive developmental investigators (including Solomon and Carey) work to discover innate representational constraints that channel cognitive development, thus expecting cross-cultural universality in representations of the world. «