Culture and Human Development
Subtitle: The Selected Papers of John Whiting (Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology)
Contributors: Eleanor Hollenberg Chasdi (Editor); Roy D'Andrade (Introduction)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780521028066
Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; Child Development; Ethnopsychology; Family & Relationships-Child Development; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural
First sentence: This part, theory and methods, contains three selections which introduce the reader to the basic concepts of culture and custom, the need for cross-cultural research, a model for conceptualizing psychocultural research, and the methodological issues involved in selecting appropriate samples and obtaining and analyzing individual and cultural data.