Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Psychological 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.

• Presents the latest psychological research from a variety of global cultures
• Sheds new light on historical continuities in psychological anthropology
• Explores the cultural relativity of emotional experience and moral concepts among diverse peoples, the Freudian influence and recent psychoanalytic trends in anthropology
• Addresses 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

Authors: Robert A. LeVine

Format: Paperback

Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9781405105767

Publication date: 20100413