New directions in psychological anthropology / edited by Theodore Schwartz, Geoffrey M. White and Catherine A. Lutz.
Contributor(s): Schwartz, Theodore
| White, Geoffrey M. (Geoffrey Miles) | Lutz, Catherine.
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BookSeries: Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology ; 3.Publisher: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992Description: x, 352 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0521415926 (hbk); 052142609X (pbk).Subject(s): EthnopsychologyDDC 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 | 00016287 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The field of psychological anthropology has changed a great deal since the 1940s and 1950s, when it was often known as 'Culture and Personality Studies'. Rooted in psychoanalytic psychology, its early practitioners sought to extend that psychology through the study of cross-cultural variation in personality and child-rearing practices. Psychological anthropology has since developed in a number of new directions. Tensions between individual experience and collective meanings remain as central to the field as they were fifty years ago, but, alongside fresh versions of the psychoanalytic approach, other approaches to the study of cognition, emotion, the body, and the very nature of subjectivity have been introduced. And in the place of an earlier tendency to treat a 'culture' as an undifferentiated whole, psychological anthropology now recognizes the complex internal structure of cultures. The contributors to this state-of-the-art collection are all leading figures in contemporary psychological anthropology, and they write abour recent developments in the field. Sections of the book discuss cognition, developmental psychology, biology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis, areas that have always been integral to psychological anthropology but which are now being transformed by new perspectives on the body, meaning, agency and communicative practice.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Geoffrey M. White and Catherine A. Lutz -- I: Cognition and social selves -- II: Learning to be human -- III: The body's person -- IV: Psychiatry and its contexts -- V: Psychoanalytic approaches -- VI: Disciplinary perspectives.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of contributors (p. ix)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- I Cognition and social selves
- 1 Ethnopsychology (p. 21)
- 2 Cognitive anthropology (p. 47)
- 3 Schemes for schemata (p. 59)
- 4 The woman who climbed up the house: some limitations of schema theory (p. 68)
- II Learning to be human
- 5 Language as tool in the socialization and apprehension of cultural meanings (p. 83)
- 6 Human development in psychological anthropology (p. 102)
- III The body's person
- 7 Putting people in biology: toward a synthesis of biological and psychological anthropology (p. 125)
- 8 Cupid and Psyche: investigative syncretism in biological and psychosocial anthropology (p. 150)
- IV Psychiatry and its contexts
- 9 Culture and psychopathology: directions for psychiatric anthropology (p. 181)
- 10 A prologue to a psychiatric anthropology (p. 206)
- 11 Hungry bodies, medicine, and the state: toward a critical psychological anthropology (p. 221)
- V Psychoanalytic approaches
- 12 Is psychoanalysis relevant for anthropology? (p. 251)
- 13 Intent and meaning in psychoanalysis and cultural study (p. 269)
- 14 Some thoughts on hermeneutics and psychoanalytic anthropology (p. 294)
- VI Disciplinary perspectives
- 15 Polarity and plurality: Franz Boas as psychological anthropologist (p. 311)
- 16 Anthropology and psychology: an unrequited relationship (p. 324)
- Index (p. 350)