Psychological Anthropology A Reader on Self in Culture [Paperback]

• 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

Introduction.

Part I Constructing a Paradigm, 1917–55.

Introduction – Invisible Pioneers: “Culture and Personality” Reconsidered.

1 The Polish Peasant in Europe and America (W. I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki).

2 The Psychology of Culture (Edward Sapir).

3 Culture and Experience (A. Irving Hallowell).

Part II Emotion and Morality in Diverse Cultures.

Introduction – Human Variations: A Population Perspective on Psychological Processes.

4 Emotions Have Many Faces: Inuit Lessons (Jean Briggs).

5 Moral Discourse and the Rhetoric of Emotion (Geoffrey M. White).

6 Kali’s Tongue (Usha Menon and Richard A. Shweder).

7 Shame and Guiltlƒ.