ABSTRACT
I would like to bring together two sets of speculations: anthropological speculations on cultural representations and psychological speculations on the cognitive organization of beliefs, and to put forward, on the basis of these speculations, fragments of a possible answer to the question: how do beliefs become cultural? I will not apologize for the speculative character of the attempt. At this stage, either the question is answered in a vague, fragmentary and tentative way, or it must be left alone: there is not enough sound theorizing and well-regimented evidence in the domain to do otherwise.
