Culture and personality.
Series: The Dorsey series in anthropology and sociology
Publisher: Dorsey Press
Published: 1963
Place of publication: Homewood, Ill
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 410
Subjects: Ethnopsychology; Personality and culture
Table of contents: title: An introduction to the field. The Definition of culture -- The definition of personality -- Consistency in personality -- The reality of personality -- Internal personality conflicts -- The Aymara Indians -- Some contrasting views : The physiological approach -- Childhood determinism -- The situational approach -- The concept of world view -- Interrelations of the determinants -- Some forerunners. Burckhardt -- Huizinga -- Spengler -- Ruth Bennedict’s patterns of culture. Pueblo culture -- Kwakiutl culture -- Some general considerations -- Malinowski’s criticism of Freudian theory -- Margaret Mead’s from the South Seas. Coming of age in Samoa -- Growing up in New Guinea -- Sex and temperament -- Some configurationists. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis -- Iatmul ethos -- Redfield on the peasant “style of life.” -- Concept of themes -- The school of Linton, Kardiner, and Du Bois -- Basic personality structure -- “Primary” and “secondary” institutions -- Applications -- The concept of “modal personality” -- The people of Alor -- Truk : man in paradise -- Childhood determinism and the study of national character. Japanese national character -- National character studied at a distance -- The swaddling hypothesis -- Child-adult contrasts -- The Chippewa and their analysts. Ethnographic sketch -- Ruth Landes -- A. Irving Hallowell -- Victor Barnouw -- Bernard J. James -- Ernestine Friedl -- Stephen T. Boggs -- Some criticisms, a review, and some conclusions. A brief review and some conclusions -- The concept of projection -- The observation of behavior, I. Psychological ecology -- Family studies -- Structured situations -- Doll play -- The observation of behavior, II. Posture and gesture -- Interpretations of Balinese postural habits -- The recording of behavior -- Pitfalls in observation -- The interview -- Summary of chapters eleven and twelve -- The analysis of life history material. Jim Mink’s anecdotes : commentary -- Summary -- The interpretation of dreams, visions, and fantasy. The collective approach -- The individual approach -- Symbolism -- Julia Badger’s Phantasies. Julia Badger’s vision -- Symbolism of the snake -- Phallic hunchbacks -- The Rorschach test. Human movement and color responses -- The cross-cultural application of the Rorschach test -- Kaplan’s experiments with the Rorschach test. The analysis of groups : Hallowell’s three Chippewa groups -- Chippewa children’s Rorschachs -- The Menomini -- The Kaska -- The Tuscarora -- Weaknesses in statistical studies -- The thematic apperception test. Modified TATs -- Group studies : Hopi and Navaho Children -- Chippewa children -- Japanese-Americans -- Micronesian studies -- Maori adolescence -- Drawing analysis. Alorese children’s drawings -- French children’s paintings -- Chippewa children’s drawings -- The Draw-A-Person test : the body image -- Aspects of DAP Interpretation -- Some adult Chippewa drawings -- The House-Tree-Person test -- Assessment of the H-T-P test for cross-cultural studies -- The Analysis of folklore. Three approaches -- Personality clues in folklore -- Eskimo folklore : Nunivak Island -- Chippewa folklore : social relations -- Aggression and duplicity -- Oral themes -- Anal themes -- Colors, darkness, and light -- Locality -- The character of Wenebojo -- Interpretation -- Style -- The interpretation of art. Wallace’s analysis of Maya art -- Northwest coast art -- Complexity of art style -- Cross-cultural surveys.  Sorcery and social control -- The functions of alcohol -- “Apollonianism”; Some correlations -- Child training and personality -- The functions of initiation rites -- Advantages and drawbacks -- Culture and mental disorders. Culturally patterned disorders : Windigo -- Latah -- Imu -- Saka -- Pibloktoq -- Some interpretations -- Further examples of cultural patterning in mental disorders -- Class and mental disorder -- Migration and mental disorders -- Acculturation and culture change -- Culture, personality, and culture change. Economic development and personality -- Prejudice.