Overview
Psychological Anthropology: A Reader in Self in Culture presents a selection of readings from recent and classical literature with a rich diversity of insights into the individual and society. Presents the latest psychological research from a variety of global cultures Sheds new light on historical continuities in psychological anthropology Explores the cultural relativity of emotional experience and moral concepts among diverse peoples, the Freudian influence and recent psychoanalytic trends in anthropology Addresses childhood and the acquisition of culture, an ethnographic focus on the self as portrayed in ritual and healing, and how psychological anthropology illuminates social change
- | Author: Robert A. Levine
- | Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
- | Publication Date: Apr 26, 2010
- | Number of Pages: 416 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 1405105763
- | ISBN-13: 9781405105767
