Psychological Anthropology by Robert A. LeVine - 9781405105750

Psychological AnthropologyA Reader on Self in Culture\nAuthor(s): Robert A. LeVine\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Wiley-Blackwell\nISBN-13: 9781405105750, 978-1405105750\nSynopsis\nPsychological Anthropology: A Reader in Self in Culture presents a selection of readings from recent and classical literature with a rich diversity of insights into the individual and society.\n\nPresents the latest psychological research from a variety of global cultures\nSheds new light on historical continuities in psychological anthropology\nExplores the cultural relativity of emotional experience and moral concepts among diverse peoples, the Freudian influence and recent psychoanalytic trends in anthropology\nAddresses childhood and the acquisition of culture, an ethnographic focus on the self as portrayed in ritual and healing, and how psychological anthropology illuminates social change