Cultural Psychology Essays on Comparative Human Development [Paperback]

Cultural Psychology is a collection of essays from leading social scientists emphasising human development.Derived from the Chicago Symposia on Culture and Human Development , this collection of essays by leading anthropologists, psychologists and linguists introduces cultural psychology as a way to study human development.Derived from the Chicago Symposia on Culture and Human Development , this collection of essays by leading anthropologists, psychologists and linguists introduces cultural psychology as a way to study human development.This collection of essays from leading scholars in anthropology, psychology, and linguistics is an outgrowth of the internationally known Chicago Symposia on Culture and Human Development. It raises the idea of a new discipline of cultural psychology through the study of the relationship between psyche and culture, subject and object, person and world, with special reference to core areas of human development: cognition, learning, self, personality dynamics, and gender. The essays critically examine such questions as: Is there an intrinsic psychic unity to humankind? Can cultural traditions transform the human psyche, resulting less in psychic unity than in ethnic divergences in mind, self, and emotion? Are psychological processes local or specific to the socio-cultural environments in which they are imbedded?Preface; Cultural psychology - what is it? Richard A. Shweder; Part I. The Keynote Addresses: 1. On the strange and the familiar in recent anthropological thought Melford E. Spiro; Part II. Cultural Cognition: 2. Some propositions about the relations between culture and human cognition Roy D'Andrade; 3. Culture and moral development Richard A. Shweder, Manamohan Mahapatra and Joan G. Miller; 4. The laws of sympathetic magic: a psychological analysis of similarity and contagion Paul Rozin and Carol Nemeroff; 5. The development from child speaker to naive speaker Dan I. Slobin; Part II. Cultural Learning: 6. The socializatl#"