Culture Theory Essays on Mind, Self and Emotion

Name: Culture Theory Essays on Mind, Self and Emotion
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ISBN: 9780521318310

ISBN-10: 0521318319

ISBN-13: 9780521318310

Edition: 1984

Authors: Richard A. Shweder, Robert A. LeVine

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The relationship between everyday experience and culture - seen as a set of ideas, values, or symbolic codes - has challenged social scientists, especially anthropologists, for more than a century. In this volume, leading social scientists present and discuss recent conceptions of culture and explore their implications for understanding different aspects of subjective experience, social practice, and individual behavior. The focus of the volume is on the role of symbols and meaning in the development of mind, self, and emotion. The contributors examine such questions as what is the content of culture and how does it interact with cognitive, social, and emotional growth; how are ideas…

Book details

List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 1984
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/28/1984
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 372
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English




Culture Theory: An Introduction



Anthropology's romantic rebellion against the enlightenment, or there's more to thinking than reason and evidence




Properties of culture: an ethnographic view




Cultural meaning systems




Culture, Self, and Emotion



'From the native's point of view: on the nature of anthropological understanding




Toward an anthropology of self and feeling




Does the concept of the person vary cross-culturally?




Understanding people




Emotion, knowing and culture




Getting angry: the Jamesian theory of emotion in anthropology




Culture, Language, and Thought



The development of competence in culturally defined domains: a preliminary framework




Language acquisition and socialization: three developmental stories and their implications




Commentary



Some reflections on cultural determinism and relativism with special reference to emotion and reason



Name index


Subject index