num_pages: 268
description: This volume identifies an emerging synthesis in psychological anthropology and presents the new research agenda taking shape as the discipline moves beyond the postmodernist critique. United by a desire to better understand the relationship of individual experience to culture, the individual authors use a range of contemporary approaches in the field, including person-centered ethnography, activity theory, attachment and object relations theory, and cultural schema theory. Taken together, these chapters demonstrate the importance of basing comparative studies on categories derived from fine-grained accounts of personal experience.
language: English
title: The Psychology of Cultural Experience
titlecomplete: The Psychology of Cultural Experience (Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Series Number 12)
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Cambridge University Press