Psychological Anthropology
A Reader on Self in Culture
Pocket
Engelsk
Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 416
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- Serienavn: Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural
- EAN: 9781405105767
- Utgivelsesår: 2010
469,-
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