Exploring borders : Understanding culture and psychology / Giuseppe Mantovani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mantovani, Giuseppe, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture.

Ethnopsychology.

Cultural relativism.

Ethnocentrism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (164 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Philadelphia : Routledge, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Highlights and explores the ways in which culture acts as a framework organising our experience. The emphasis is placed on the differences across and between cultures and the depths to which these can go.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Frames of experience; Birds and spirits; The roots of prejudice; Metaphors and analogies; Immeasurable distances; Different shipwrecks; Hopes of happiness; So near and yet so far; The web of culture; Sun counters; Pride and dignity; The blind man's cane; Culture in education; Cultivating memory; The sheriff comes for Virgil; Crossing borders; Conclusions; Notes; References; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [142]-148) and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publishser.

ISBN:

1-134-56787-1

1-280-40118-4

0-203-13092-8

0-203-17034-2

9780203130926

OCLC:

57135035