The Psychology of Cultural Experience

by Carmella C. Moore, Holly F. Mathews

Overview

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 together, these chapters demonstrate the importance of basing comparative studies on categories derived from fine-grained accounts of personal experience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521005524
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/06/2001
Series:	Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology , #12
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: the psychology of cultural experience Holly F. Mathews and Carmella C. Moore; Part I. Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Study of Experience: 1. Beyond the binary opposition in psychological anthropology: integrating contemporary psychoanalysis and cognitive science Drew Westen; 2. Developments in person-centered ethnography Douglas Hollan; 3. Activity theory and cultural psychology Carl Ratner; Part II. Acquiring, Modifying, and Transmitting Culture: 4. The infant's acquisition of culture: early attachment re-examined in anthropological perspective Robert A. LeVine and Karin Norman; 5. The remembered past in a culturally meaningful life: remembering as cultural, social, and cognitive process Linda C. Garro; Part III. Continuity and Change in Cultural Experience: 6. The psychology of consensus in a Papua New Guinea Christian revival movement Stephen C. Leavitt; 7. God and self: the shaping and sharing of experience in a cooperative, religious community Susan Love Brown; Part IV. A Reinvigorated Comparative Perspective: 8. Cross-cultural studies in language and thought: is there a metalanguage? Eve Danziger; 9. Comparative approaches to psychological anthropology Robert L. Munroe and Ruth H. Munroe.