A multidisciplinary collaboration exploring the role of cultural knowledge in everyday language and understanding.

This book is about cultural models. Cultural models are defined as molar organizations of knowledge. Their internal structure consists of a 'core' component and

Why do people do what they do? The authors attempt to show how shared cultural knowledge comes to motivate, or fail to motivate, individuals.

This volume explores the Cultural Models of Nature found in a range of food-producing communities located in climate-change affected areas.

This book provides a multidisciplinary overview of cultural models of emotions, with particular focus on how cultural parameters of societies affect the emotion