Authors: Theodore Schwartz (Editor), Catherine A. Lutz, Geoffrey M. White, Catherine A. Lutz (Editor), Geoffrey M. White
ISBN-13: 9780521426091, ISBN-10: 052142609X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: January 1993
Edition: 1st Edition
The contributors to this state-of-the-art collection are prominent figures in psychological anthropology, and they write about recent developments in this field. Rooted in psychoanalytic psychology, the early practitioners in the forties and fifties concentrated on studying cross-cultural variation in child rearing practices. While tensions between individual experience and collective meanings are still central to psychological anthropology, alongside fresh versions of the psychoanalytic approaches, other approaches to the study of cognition, emotion, and ethnopsychology have been introduced. Psychological anthropology's present scope includes the psychology of cognition and affect, to which it has made substantial contributions.
List of contributors | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
I | Cognition and social selves | |
1 | Ethnopsychology | 21 |
2 | Cognitive anthropology | 47 |
3 | Schemes for schemata | 59 |
4 | The woman who climbed up the house: some limitations of schema theory | 68 |
II | Learning to be human | |
5 | Language as tool in the socialization and apprehension of cultural meanings | 83 |
6 | Human development in psychological anthropology | 102 |
III | The body's person | |
7 | Putting people in biology: toward a synthesis of biological and psychological anthropology | 125 |
8 | Cupid and Psyche: investigative syncretism in biological and psychosocial anthropology | 150 |
IV | Psychiatry and its contexts | |
9 | Culture and psychopathology: directions for psychiatric anthropology | 181 |
10 | A prologue to a psychiatric anthropology | 206 |
11 | Hungry bodies, medicine, and the state: toward a critical psychological anthropology | 221 |
V | Psychoanalytic approaches | |
12 | Is psychoanalysis relevant for anthropology? | 251 |
13 | Intent and meaning in psychoanalysis and cultural study | 269 |
14 | Some thoughts on hermeneutics and psychoanalytic anthropology | 294 |
VI | Disciplinary perspectives | |
15 | Polarity and plurality: Franz Boas as psychological anthropologist | 311 |
16 | Anthropology and psychology: an unrequited relationship | 324 |
Index | 350 |