Hirschfeld, Lawrence A.

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HIRSCHFELD, Lawrence A.

HIRSCHFELD, Lawrence A. American, b. 1947. Genres: Anthropology/Ethnology, Psychology. Career: College de France, Paris, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale, associate member, 1979-83; University of Wisconsin, Madison, assistant scientist in anthropology, 1983-89, research associate in psychology, 1984-85, fellow of Eugene Havens Center for the Study of Social Structure and Social Change, 1985-86; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, assistant professor, 1989-96, associate professor of anthropology and psychology, 1996-, faculty associate at Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research, 1992-, co-director of Graduate Program in Culture and Cognition, 1993-. Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, researcher at Laboratoire de Psycho-Biologie de l'Enfant, 1987-88, head of research at Centre de Recherche en Epistemologie Appliquee, Groupe de Recherche sur la Cognition, Ecole Polytechnique, 1988-89. U.S. Census Bureau, member of expert panel for Census 2000. Presenter, panel member, discussion group member, and organizer of symposia, meetings, conferences, and other academic gatherings. Publications: (ed. with S. Gelman and contrib) Mapping the Mind: Domain Specificity in Cognition and Culture, 1994; Race in the Making: Cognition, Culture, and the Child's Construction of Human Kinds, 1996. Contributor to books. Contributor of articles and reviews to professional journals. Address: Departments of Anthropology and Psychology, 1020 LS&A, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]