The Psychology of Cultural Experience
The Psychology of Cultural Experience
£39.99
GBPThe essays in this volume, first published in 2001, focus upon the relationship of individual experience to culture, and chart a research agenda for psychological anthropology in the twenty-first century. Drawing upon fieldwork in diverse cultural settings, the authors use a range of contemporary perspectives in the field, including person-centred ethnography, activity theory, attachment theory and cultural schema theory, to describe the ways in which people think, feel, remember, and solve problems. Fascinating insights emerge from these fine-grained accounts of personal experience. The research demonstrates that it is possible to identify cross-cultural universals in psychological development and mental states, and that individual psychology is not determined solely by unique cultural patterns.
- Articulates an important research agenda for psychological anthropology
- Reasserts the strengths of the field that pioneered the study of individual experience and its relationship to culture
- Draws upon empirical fieldwork in diverse cultural settings
Product details
September 2001Paperback
9780521005524
268 pages
228 × 153 × 17 mm
0.433kg
2 tables
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Table of Contents
- Introduction: the psychology of cultural experience Holly F. Mathews and Carmella C. Moore
- Part I. Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Study of Experience:
- 1. Beyond the binary opposition in psychological anthropology: integrating contemporary psychoanalysis and cognitive science Drew Westen
- 2. Developments in person-centered ethnography Douglas Hollan
- 3. Activity theory and cultural psychology Carl Ratner
- Part II. Acquiring, Modifying, and Transmitting Culture:
- 4. The infant's acquisition of culture: early attachment re-examined in anthropological perspective Robert A. LeVine and Karin Norman
- 5. The remembered past in a culturally meaningful life: remembering as cultural, social, and cognitive process Linda C. Garro
- Part III. Continuity and Change in Cultural Experience:
- 6. The psychology of consensus in a Papua New Guinea Christian revival movement Stephen C. Leavitt
- 7. God and self: the shaping and sharing of experience in a cooperative, religious community Susan Love Brown
- Part IV. A Reinvigorated Comparative Perspective:
- 8. Cross-cultural studies in language and thought: is there a metalanguage? Eve Danziger
- 9. Comparative approaches to psychological anthropology Robert L. Munroe and Ruth H. Munroe.
