Culture and personality
By: Victor Barnouw.
Edition: 3d ed.
Series: The Dorsey series in anthropology
Publisher: Dorsey Press
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Homewood, Ill
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 473
Subjects: Ethnopsychology.; Personality and culture.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 409-460.
Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: An introduction to the field. Definition of culture -- Definition of personality -- Consistency in personality -- Contrasting views of personality: conflict model -- Fulfillment model -- Consistency model -- Conceptions of culture in the three models -- Physiological determinants -- Situational approaches -- Longitudinal studies -- Primate traits -- Human development: Language -- Maternal deprivation -- Role of the father -- Years three to five -- Latency -- Puberty and adolescence -- Cultural differences in child development -- Concept of social character. Egyptians of Silwa -- Aymara Indians : Aymara re-examined -- Present-day Japan : Sleeping arrangements -- Japanese and American infants : Some contrasts -- Patterns of bathing and carrying -- Early oral, anal, and sexual disciplines -- Methods of achieving compliance -- School education -- Sense of obligation -- Achievement motivation -- Some generalizations on personality -- Ruth Benedict’s Patterns of Culture. Pueblo culture -- Kwakiutl culture -- Some general considerations -- Themes and postulates -- 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 -- Contributions of Gregory Bateson. Latmul ethos and schismogenesis -- Balinese character : Balinese childhood -- Tjalonarang drama -- Double bind. School of Linton, Kardiner, and Du Bois. Basic personality structure -- ‘Primary” and secondary” institutions -- Applications -- Concept of “modal personality”: People of Alor -- Truk : Man in Paradise -- Cross-cultural surveys. Sorcery and social control -- Functions of alcohol : “Apollonianism” : Some correlations -- Child training and personality -- The functions of initiation rites -- Other correlational studies -- Advantages and drawbacks -- Concluding comments -- Six Cultures Project. Gusii -- Rajputs of Khalapur -- Taira, Okinawa -- Mixtecan Indians of Juxtlahuaca, Mexico -- Ilocos barrio, Tarong, Philippines -- Orchard Town, New England -- Some interpretations -- Cross-cultural studies of cognition. Sapir-Whorf hypothesis -- Cognitive testing among Kpelle -- Piagetian stages of development : Concrete operations -- Environment and perception -- Cognitive style, culture, and ecology -- Question of ESP -- Cross-cultural studies of values and attitudes. Values in five southwestern communities -- Pastoralists and farmers -- Rightists and leftists -- Males and females -- Prejudices -- Observation of behavior and interviews. Psychological ecology -- Methods in the Six Cultures project -- Family studies -- Structured situations -- Doll play -- Posture and gesture -- Interpretations of Balinese postural habits -- Recording of behavior -- Pitfalls in observation -- Interviews and questionnaires -- Analysis of life history material -- Interpretation of dreams and visions. Collective approach -- Individual approach -- Symbolism -- Julia Badger’s fantasies -- Julia Badger’s vision. Symbolism of the snake -- Phallic hunchbacks -- Hallucinogens and visions -- Projective tests. Rorschach Test : Human movement and color responses -- Cross-cultural application of Rorschach Test -- Criticisms of Rorschach Test -- Analysis of groups: HallowelI’s three Chippewa groups -- Chippewa children’s Rorschachs -- Menomini -- Kaska -- Thematic Apperception Test : Modified TATs -- Group studies -- Hopi and Navaho children -- Chippewa children -- Japanese-Americans -- Micronesian studies -- Drawing analysis. Alorese children’s drawings -- Chippewa children’s drawings -- Draw-A- Person (DAP) Test : body image, ideal type, and group values -- Aspects of DAP interpretation -- Some adult Chippewa drawings -- House-Tree-Person Test : Japanese, Indian, and American H-T-Ps -- Sterilization project -- Kinetic family drawings -- Analysis of folklore and art. Three approaches to folklore -- Personality clues in folklore -- Eskimo folklore : Nunivak Island -- Chippewa folklore : Social relations -- Aggression and duplicity -- Oral themes -- Anal themes -- Colors, darkness, and light -- Locality -- Character of Wenebojo -- Other Wisconsin Chippewa folklore -- Style -- Interpretation of art : Influence of the arts on thought and behavior -- Culture and mental disorders. Culturally patterned disorders : Windigo. Kiowa Apache Ghost Sickness -- Latah, imu, saka, and pibloktoq -- Some interpretations -- “Wild man’ behavior in New Guinea -- Further examples of cultural patterning in mental disorders -- Class and mental disorder -- Migration and mental disorders -- Acculturation and culture change -- Methods of therapy -- Summary -- Culture, personality, and culture change. Burckhardt on the Renaissance -- Fromm on Western man -- Psychohistorians on Western man -- Riesman on the changing American character -- Gap between generations : Bronfenbrenner on American children -- Hippie scene -- How much of a gap? -- Economic development and personality : Achievement motivation -- Group status and economic development -- Achievement motivation in Nigeria -- Economic change in a Mexican village -- Economic development in India -- Economic and political development in Burma -- Economic development in Japan -- Chinese political culture” and personality -- Revitalization movements -- Child-rearing in an Israeli kibbutz -- Restudies. Retrospect, prospects, criticisms, and justifications.