New directions in psychological anthropology / edited by Theodore Schwartz, Geoffrey M. White, Catherine A. Lutz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schwartz, Theodore.

White, Geoffrey M. (Geoffrey Miles), 1949-

Lutz, Catherine.

Series:

Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology ; 3.

Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnopsychology.

Physical Description:

x, 352 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Summary:

The field of psychological anthropology has changed a great deal since the 1940s and 1950s, when it was often known as "Culture and Personality Studies." Rooted in psychoanalytic psychology, its early practitioners sought to extend that psychology through the study of cross-cultural variation in personality and child-rearing practices. Psychological anthropology has since developed in a number of new directions. Tensions between individual experience and collective meanings remain as central to the field as they were fifty years ago, but, alongside fresh versions of the psychoanalytic approach, other approaches to the study of cognition, emotion, the body, and the very nature of subjectivity have been introduced. And in the place of an earlier tendency to treat a "culture" as an undifferentiated whole, psychological anthropology now recognizes the complex internal structure of cultures.

Contents:

I Cognition and social selves

1 Ethnopsychology / Geoffrey M. White 21

2 Cognitive anthropology / Roy G. D'andrade 47

3 Schemes for schemata / Janet Dixon Keller 59

4 The woman who climbed up the house: some limitations of schema theory / Dorothy Holland 68

II Learning to be human

5 Language as tool in the socialization and apprehension of cultural meanings / Peggy J. Miller, Lisa Hoogstra 83

6 Human development in psychological anthropology / Sara Harkness 102

III The body's person

7 Putting people in biology: toward a synthesis of biological and psychological anthropology / James S. Chisholm 125

8 Cupid and Psyche: investigative syncretism in biological and psychosocial anthropology / Carol M. Worthman 150

IV Psychiatry and its contexts

9 Culture and psychopathology: directions for psychiatric anthropology / Byron J. Good 181

10 A prologue to a psychiatric anthropology / Robert I. Levy 206

11 Hungry bodies, medicine, and the state: toward a critical psychological anthropology / Nancy Scheper-Hughes 221

V Psychoanalytic approaches

12 Is psychoanalysis relevant for anthropology? / Katherine P. Ewing 251

13 Intent and meaning in psychoanalysis and cultural study / Bertram J. Cohler 269

14 Some thoughts on hermeneutics and psychoanalytic anthropology / Vincent Crapanzano 294

VI Disciplinary perspectives

15 Polarity and plurality: Franz Boas as psychological anthropologist / George W. Stocking, Jr. 311

16 Anthropology and psychology: an unrequited relationship / Theodore Schwartz 324.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521415926

052142609X

OCLC:

24911797