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Book SynopsisIn Volume 17, a series of critical appreciations of George and Louise Spindler''s multidisciplinary contributions focus on homogeneity and heterogeneity in American cultural anthropology (S. Parman); the molding of American anthropology (M. Suarez); education (H. Trueba); and the uses of projective techniques in the field (R. Edgerton & G. DeVos). Additional topics include the primary process (M. Spiro); psychotherapy and culture (L. Bloom); unconscious aspects of the Arab-Israeli conflict (A. Falk); and medieval messianism and Sabbatianism (W. Meissner).
Table of Contents1. The Lives of George and Louise Spindler, Spindler 2. The Enduring, Situated, and Endangered Self in Fieldwork: A Personal Account, Spindler 3. George and Louise Spindler and the Issue of Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in American Cultural Anthropology, Parman 4. Learning Culture: The Spindlers' Contributions to the Making of American Anthropology, Suarez-Orozco 5. Prophets with Honor: The Early Rorschach Research of George and Louise Spindler, Edgerton 6. The Spindlers as Ethnographers: The Impact of Their Lives and Works on American Anthropology, Treuba 7. The Interpersonal Self: A Level of Psychocultural Analysis, De Vos, Vaughn 8. Women's Experience: Fantasy and Culture Change, Bourguinon 9. The "Primary Process" Revisited, Spiro 10. Psychotherapy and Culture, Bloom 11. Unconscious Aspects of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Falk 12. Spirit and the Problem of Social Instincts: Exceptions to Freud's Critique of Religion, Merkur 13. Medieval Messianism and Sabbatianism, Meissner
