books.google.co.uk - "Culture" and "meaning" are central to anthropology, but anthropologists do not agree on what they are. Claudia Strauss and Naomi Quinn propose a new theory of cultural meaning, one that gives priority to the way people's experiences are internalized. Drawing on "connectionist" or "neural network" models...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/A_Cognitive_Theory_of_Cultural_Meaning.html?id=tyhdo9R0cDcC&q=mediating+structures&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareA Cognitive Theory of Cultural Meaning