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Psychological Anthropology: A Reader on Self in Culture

ISBN: 978-1-4051-0576-7
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416 pages
April 2010, ©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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