The Psychology of Cultural Experience

ISBN-13: 9780521005524 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 268 str.

Carmella C. Moore; Holly F. Mathews; Naomi Quinn

Opis

This volume identifies an emerging synthesis in psychological anthropology and presents the new research agenda taking shape as the discipline moves beyond the postmodernist critique. United by a desire to better understand the relationship of individual experience to culture, the individual authors use a range of contemporary approaches in the field, including person-centered ethnography, activity theory, attachment and object relations theory, and cultural schema theory. Taken together, these chapters demonstrate the importance of basing comparative studies on categories derived from fine-grained accounts of personal experience.

Spis treści

Introduction: the psychology of cultural experience Holly F. Mathews and Carmella C. Moore; Part I. Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Study of Experience: 1. Beyond the binary opposition in psychological anthropology: integrating contemporary psychoanalysis and cognitive science Drew Westen; 2. Developments in person-centered ethnography Douglas Hollan; 3. Activity theory and cultural psychology Carl Ratner; Part II. Acquiring, Modifying, and Transmitting Culture: 4. The infant's acquisition of culture: early attachment re-examined in anthropological perspective Robert A. LeVine and Karin Norman; 5. The remembered past in a culturally meaningful life: remembering as cultural, social, and cognitive process Linda C. Garro; Part III. Continuity and Change in Cultural Experience: 6. The psychology of consensus in a Papua New Guinea Christian revival movement Stephen C. Leavitt; 7. God and self: the shaping and sharing of experience in a cooperative, religious community Susan Love Brown; Part IV. A Reinvigorated Comparative Perspective: 8. Cross-cultural studies in language and thought: is there a metalanguage? Eve Danziger; 9. Comparative approaches to psychological anthropology Robert L. Munroe and Ruth H. Munroe.