Cultural psychology ; essays on comparative human development / edited by James W. Stigler ... [et al.]
Contributor(s): Stigler, James W
| Shweder, Richard A | Herdt, Gilbert H | University of Chicago. Committee on Human Development.
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BookPublisher: Cambridge ; . New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990Description: ix, 625 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0521371546 (hbk); 0521378044 (pbk).Subject(s): Ethnopsychology -- Congresses | Cognition and culture -- CongressesDDC classification: 155.8 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 155.8 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00016285 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This book raises the idea of a distinct discipline of cultural psychology, the study of the ways that psyche and culture, subject and object, and person and world make up each other. Cultural Psychology is a collection of essays from leading scholars in anthropology, psychology, and linguistics who examine these relationships with special reference to core areas of human development: cognition, learning, self, personality dynamics, and gender. The chapters critically examine such questions as: Is there an intrinsic psychic unity to humankind? Can cultural traditions transform the human psyche, resulting less in psychic unity than in ethnic divergences in mind, self, and emotion? Are psychological processes local or specific to the sociocultural environments in which they are embedded? The volume is an outgrowth of the internationally known Chicago Symposia on Culture and Human Development. It will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience of anthropologists, psychologists, linguists, historians, philosophers and hermeneutists interested in the prospects for a distinct discipline of cultural psychology.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Part I: The keynote address -- Part II: Cultural cognition -- Part III: Cultural learning -- Part IV: Cultural selves -- Part V: Cultural conceptions of psychoanalysis -- Part VI: Cultural domination and dominions -- Part VII: A skeptical reflection.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface
- Cultural psychology - what is it
- Part I The Keynote Addresses
- 1 On the strange and the familiar in recent anthropological thought
- Part II Cultural Cognition
- 2 Some propositions about the relations between culture and human cognition
- 3 Culture and moral development
- 4 The laws of sympathetic magic: a psychological analysis of similarity and contagion
- 5 The development from child speaker to naive speaker
- Part II Cultural Learning
- 6 The socialization of cognition: what's involved
- 7 Indexicality and socialization
- 8 The culture of acquisition and the practice of understanding
- 9 Mathematics learning in Japanese, Chinese, and American classrooms
- Part IV Cultural Selves
- 10 Adolescent rituals and identity conflicts
- 11 Sambia nosebleeding rites and male proximity to women
- 12 On self characterization
- Part V Cultural Coneptions of Psychoanalysis
- 13 Stories from Indian psychoanalysis: context and text
- 14 The cultural assumptions of psychoanalysis
- 15 Infant environments in psychoanalysis: a cross-cultural view
- Part VI Cultural Domination and Dominions
- 16 Male dominance and sexual coercion
- 17 The children of Trackton's children: spoken and written language in social change
- 18 Cultural mode, identity, and literacy
- 19 Mother love and child death in northeast
- Part VII A Skeptical Reflection
- 20 Social understanding and the inscription of self
- Name index
- Subject index