Psychological Anthropology : A Reader on Self in Culture, Paperback / softback Book

Psychological Anthropology : A Reader on Self in Culture Paperback / softback

Edited by Robert A. (Harvard University, USA) LeVine

Part of the Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology series

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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 culturesSheds new light on historical continuities in psychological anthropologyExplores the cultural relativity of emotional experience and moral concepts among diverse peoples, the Freudian influence and recent psychoanalytic trends in anthropologyAddresses 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

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