The Psychology of Cultural Experience |
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| Editor:
| Moore, Carmella C.
Mathews, Holly F. |
| Series title: | Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-80319-9 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2001 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $94.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionThis 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.