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Culture and identity: the history, theory, and practice of psychological anthropology
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Oneworld Publications
Publication Date
2007
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English
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Table of Contents
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List of Boxes
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Part 1. Introduction
1. Who Am I? The Search for the Self
I. Identity in America
II. Questioning Self-Certainty
III. On the Borderline of Psychology and Anthropology
IV. Outline of the Argument
Part 2. Culture and the Individual in Western Philosophy
2. The Discovery of the Individual
I. The Discovery of the Unified Self
II. A Human-Centered Universe: The Renaissance
III. Protestantism, Capitalism, and Individualism
IV. New Paradigms: Montaigne, Hobbes, Descartes, Hume, and Kant
3. Authenticity and Its Vicissitudes
I. Rousseau and Romanticism
II. Human Beings as Maximizers: Utilitarianism
III. The German Reaction: Hegel, Schopenhauer, Marx, and Nietzsche
IV. Reconstructing Social Being: Weber, Durkheim, and Freud
Part 3. The Anthropology of Personal Being
4. How "Other" Is the Other?
I. Testing Perception across Cultures
II. Classifications, Complexity, and Intelligence
III. Culture, Reason, and Socialization
IV. Authentic Culture
V. The Foundations of Culture and Personality
5. The Psychoanalysis of Culture
I. Can There Be a Freudian Anthropology?
II. Neo-Freudian Approaches: Kardiner, Du Bois, and Erikson
III. Freedom and Repression: The Study of National Character
6. Quandaries and Alternatives
I. The Whitings' Comparative Anthropology
II. Culture and Identity: Peirce, G. H. Mead, Hallowell, and Goffman
III. The Affirmation of Diversity: Wallace, LeVine, and Spiro
7. Creativity and Alterity
I. Agency and Action: Turner, Obeyesekere, and Crapanzano
II. Interpretation and Critique: Geertz, Shweder, Taussig, and Scheper-Hughes
III. The Cultural Body
IV. Being in Culture
Part 4. Problems and Some Solutions
8. Dialectics of Self and Other
I. Defining the Self
II. Sociocentric and Egocentric Selves
III. Hegemony, Hybridity, and the Decentered Self
IV. Hierarchical Categories: Race, Sex, and Caste
9. The Thinking Animal
I. Thinking about Thinking
II. The Evolution of Cognitive Anthropology
III. Computers, Consciousness, and Cultural Models
10. Feeling and Being
I. Conceptualizing the Passions
II. Emotion as Embodied Thought
III. The Dialectics of Emotion
11. Outsiders and Charismatics
I. Understanding the Marginalized Individual
II. Culture and Insanity
III. The Social Structure of Stigma
IV. Charisma
Part 5. Applications
12. Love and Culture
I. Paths to Selflessness
II. Love in History
III. Looking for Love
IV. The Nature of Love
13. Being an American
I. Distinctions
II. American Values
III. Wealth and Egalitarianism
IV. Politics and Community
Bibliography
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9781851685288
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