Cultural Realities of Being: Abstract Ideas Within Everyday Lives

ISBN-13: 9780415600637 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 212 str.

Nandita Chaudhary;S. Anandalakshmy;¬Abar

Opis

'Cultural Realities of Being' offers a dialogue between academic activity and everyday lives by providing an interface between several perspectives on human conduct. Very often, academic pursuits are arcane and obscure for ordinary people, this book will attempt to disentangle these dialogues, lifting everyday discourse and providing a forum for advancing discussion and dialogue.

Spis treści

Part 1: Social Presentation in Culture  Introspections on Culture S. Anandalakshmy.  Feasting and Fasting in Hindu India Devdutt Pattanaik.  Commentary Alan Roland   Part 2: Representing Relations  Negotiations with Patriarchy: Gender and Childhood in India Shraddha Kapoor.  Parental Reconstructions about the Care and Development of Young Children Mila Tuli.  Cultural Situatedness of Cognitive Development and its Assessment Nandita Chaudhary.  Commentary Ana Cecilia Bastos  Part 3: Children and Youth in Culture  ‘I Have a Family, Therefore I Am’: Children’s Understanding of Self and Others Pooja Bhargava.  Children’s Understanding of Multiple Layers of Truth Punya Pillai.  Challenging Tradition and Negotiating Modernity: The Lives of Contemporary Indian Youth Sujata Sriram.  Commentary Meike Watzlawik.  Conclusion Nandita Chaudhary, S. Anandalakshmy and Jaan Valsiner. 

O autorze

Nandita Chaudhary is Associate Professor at Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi, India. S. Anandalakshmy is a consultant in Chennai, India. Jaan Valsiner is Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark, and Professor of Psychology and English at Clark University, USA.