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ISBN: 9781405105767
Year: 2010
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 402
Description:
Psychological Anthropology: A Reader in Self in
Culture presents a selection of readings from recent and
classical literature with a rich diversity of insights into the
individual and society.
Presents the latest psychological research from a variety of
global cultures
Sheds new light on historical continuities in psychological
anthropology
Explores the cultural relativity of emotional experience and
moral concepts among diverse peoples, the Freudian influence and
recent psychoanalytic trends in anthropology
Addresses childhood and the acquisition of culture, an
ethnographic focus on the self as portrayed in ritual and healing,
and how psychological anthropology illuminates social change
ISBN: 9781405105767
Year: 2010
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 402
Description:
Psychological Anthropology: A Reader in Self in
Culture presents a selection of readings from recent and
classical literature with a rich diversity of insights into the
individual and society.
Presents the latest psychological research from a variety of
global cultures
Sheds new light on historical continuities in psychological
anthropology
Explores the cultural relativity of emotional experience and
moral concepts among diverse peoples, the Freudian influence and
recent psychoanalytic trends in anthropology
Addresses childhood and the acquisition of culture, an
ethnographic focus on the self as portrayed in ritual and healing,
and how psychological anthropology illuminates social change