Handbook of cultural psychology / edited by Shinobu Kitayama, Dov Cohen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kitayama, Shinobu.

Cohen, Dov.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnopsychology.

Physical Description:

xviii, 894 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Other Title:

Cultural psychology

Place of Publication:

New York : Guilford Press, [2007]

Summary:

Bringing together leading authorities, this definitive handbook provides a comprehensive review of where the field of cultural psychology is today and where it may be headed in the future. Major theoretical perspectives are explained, and methodological issues and challenges are discussed. The volume examines how topics fundamental to psychology--identity and social relations, the self, cognition, emotion and motivation, and development--are influenced by cultural meanings and practices. It also presents cutting-edge work on the psychological and evolutionary underpinnings of cultural stability and change. In all, more than 60 contributors have written over 30 chapters covering such diverse areas as food, love, religion, intelligence, language, attachment, narratives, and work.

Contents:

The discipline and its history

Theory and methods

Identity and social relations

Acquisition and change of culture

Cognition

Emotion and motivation

Commentaries from two perspectives

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1593854447

9781593854447

OCLC:

77572936

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