A Companion to Psychological Anthropology: Modernity and Psychocultural ChangeISBN: 978-1-4051-6255-5
Paperback
560 pages
September 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
|
This Companion provides the first definitive overview of
psychocultural anthropology: a subject that focuses on cultural,
psychological, and social interrelations across cultures.
- Brings together original essays by leading scholars in the
field
- Offers an in-depth exploration of the concepts and topics that
have emerged through contemporary ethnographic work and the
processes of global change
- Key issues range from studies of consciousness and time, emotion, cognition, dreaming, and memory, to the lingering effects of racism and ethnocentrism, violence, identity and subjectivity