New Directions in Psychological Anthropology (Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Series Number 3) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052142609X ISBN 13: 9780521426091

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

The contributors to this state-of-the-art collection are prominent figures in psychological anthropology, and they write about recent developments in this field. Psychological anthropology's present scope includes the psychology of cognition and affect, to which it has made substantial contributions.

About the Author:

Schwartz, Deprtment of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 052142609X
• ISBN 13: 9780521426091
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 364
• Editor: Schwartz Theodore, White Geoffrey M., Lutz Catherine A.