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Book SynopsisPsychological 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
Trade Review"Vividly picture, frame, and imagine an exploratory vivisection of an entire human brain by 18 or so individuals from different specializations, research areas, and training levels doing talking points as each cuts, cleans, rinses, exposes, or excises the above at will into 23 overlapping chunks. If you can mentally formulate this image and want to know more, then
Psychological Anthropology: A Reader on Self in Culture is a book for you." (
PsycCritiques, December 2010)
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments x
Introduction 1
Part I Constructing a Paradigm, 1917–55 7
Introduction – Invisible Pioneers: “Culture and Personality” Reconsidered 9
1 The Polish Peasant in Europe and America 18
W. I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki
2 The Psychology of Culture 23
Edward Sapir
3 Culture and Experience 30
A. Irving Hallowell
Part II Emotion and Morality in Diverse Cultures 53
Introduction – Human Variations: A Population Perspective on Psychological Processes 55
4 Emotions Have Many Faces: Inuit Lessons 60
Jean Briggs
5 Moral Discourse and the Rhetoric of Emotion 68
Geoffrey M. White
6 Kali’s Tongue 83
Usha Menon and Richard A. Shweder
7 Shame and Guilt in Japan 102
Takie Lebra
8 Introduction to Culture and Depression 112
Arthur Kleinman and Byron Good
Part III Psychoanalytic Explorations through Fieldwork 117
Introduction – After Freud: Dramas of the Psyche in Cultural Context 119
9 Psychoanalytic Anthropology 124
Robert A. Paul
10 Is the Oedipus Complex Universal? 131
Anne Parsons
11 Kagwahiv Mourning I: Dreams of a Bereaved Father 154
Waud H. Kracke
12 Kagwahiv Mourning II: Ghosts, Grief, and Reminiscences 165
Waud H. Kracke
Part IV Childhood: Internalizing Cultural Schemas 175
Introduction – Childhood Experience: The Role of Communication 177
13 Cultural and Educational Variations in Maternal Responsiveness 181
Amy L. Richman, Patrice M. Miller, and Robert A. LeVine
14 Self-Construction through Narrative Practices: A Chinese and American Comparison of Early Socialization 193
Peggy J. Miller, Heidi Fung, and Judith Mintz
15 Parent–Child Communication Problems and the Perceived Inadequacies of Chinese Only Children 220
Vanessa L. Fong
Part V The Self in Everyday Life, Ritual, and Healing 239
Introduction – Cultural Narratives of Self: Strategies, Defenses, and Identities 241
16 The Self in Daily Dramas 245
Thomas Gregor
17 Sambia Nose-Bleeding Rites and Male Proximity to Women 269
Gilbert H. Herdt
18 Cross-Cultural Differences in the Self 295
Douglas Hollan
19 Clinical Paradigm Clashes 309
Joseph D. Calabrese
Part VI Psychosocial Processes in History and Social Transformation 325
Introduction – Culture Change: Psychosocial Processes in Social Transformation 327
20 The Psychosocial Experience of Immigration 329
Carola Suárez-Orozco and Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco
21 The Schooling of Women: Maternal Behavior and Child Environments 345
Robert A. LeVine and Sarah A. LeVine
22 Revitalization Movements 351
Anthony F. C. Wallace
23 Culture, Charisma, and Consciousness 365
Charles Lindholm
Index 378
