Psychological Anthropology: A Reader on Self in CultureISBN: 978-1-4051-0575-0
Hardcover
402 pages
April 2010, Wiley-Blackwell
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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
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