Psychological anthropology: a reader
By: edited by Robert A. LeVine.
Contributors: Levine, Robert A.
Series: Blackwell anthologies in social and cultural anthropology
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; Wiley-Interscience
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Malden, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9781405105750; 9781405105767
Subjects: Ethnopsychology
Description: 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. It 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; and 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. --Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.