UID:
almafu_9960119215402883
Format:
1 online resource (x, 352 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-62185-X
Series Statement:
Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology ; 3
Content:
The field of psychological anthropology has changed a great deal since the 1940s and 1950s, when it was often known as 'Culture and Personality Studies'. Rooted in psychoanalytic psychology, its early practitioners sought to extend that psychology through the study of cross-cultural variation in personality and child-rearing practices. Psychological anthropology has since developed in a number of new directions. Tensions between individual experience and collective meanings remain as central to the field as they were fifty years ago, but, alongside fresh versions of the psychoanalytic approach, other approaches to the study of cognition, emotion, the body, and the very nature of subjectivity have been introduced. And in the place of an earlier tendency to treat a 'culture' as an undifferentiated whole, psychological anthropology now recognizes the complex internal structure of cultures. The contributors to this state-of-the-art collection are all leading figures in contemporary psychological anthropology, and they write abour recent developments in the field. Sections of the book discuss cognition, developmental psychology, biology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis, areas that have always been integral to psychological anthropology but which are now being transformed by new perspectives on the body, meaning, agency and communicative practice.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Ethnospychology / Geoffrey M. White -- Cognitive anthropology / Roy G. D'Andrade -- Schemes for schemata / Janet Dixon Keller -- The woman who climbed up the house : some limitations of schema theory / Dorothy Holland -- Language as tool in the socialization and apprehension of cultural meanings / Peggy J. Miller and Lisa Hoogstra -- Human development in psychological anthropology / Sara Harkness -- Putting people in biology : toward a synthesis of biological and psychological anthropology / James S. Chisholm -- Cupid and Psyche : investigative syncretism in biological and psychosocial anthropology / Carol M. Worthman -- Culture and psychopathology : directions for psychiatric anthropology / Bryon J. Good -- A prologue to a psychiatric anthropology / Robert I. Levy -- Hungry bodies, medicine, and the state : toward a critical psychological anthropology / Nancy Scheper-Hughes.
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Is psychoanalysis relevant for anthropology? / Katherine P. Ewing -- Intent and meaning in psychoanalysis and cultural study / Bertram J. Cohler -- Some thoughts on hermeneutics and psychoanalytic anthropology / Vincent Crapanzano -- Polarity and plurality : Franz Boas as psychological anthropologist / George W. Stocking, Jr. -- Anthropology and psychology : an unrequited relationship / Theodore Schwartz.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-42609-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-41592-6
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511621857
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