ISBN:
9780817384081
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0817384081
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (416 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Jordan, David K Personality and the Cultural Construction of Society
DDC:
155.8
Keywords:
Spiro, Melford E.
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Spiro, Melford E
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Personality and culture
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Ethnopsychology
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PSYCHOLOGY ; Ethnopsychology
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Ethnopsychology
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Personality and culture
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: NONTELEOLOGICAL FUNCTIONALISM; 1. Melford Spiro and the Scientific Study of Culture / Kevin Avruch; 2. Natural Objects and Substitutive Acts: The Symbolic Process in the Anthropologies of Durkheim and Freud / Michael E. Meeker; 3. Culturally Constituted Defenses and the Theory of Collective Motivation / Cananath Obeyesekere; 4. Eufunctions, Dysfunctions, and Oracles: Literary Miracle Making in Taiwan / David K. Jordan; 5. Aggressive Speech, Status, and Cultural Distribution among the Swahili of Mombasa / Marc J. Swartz.
Abstract:
PART II: CULTURE AND PERSONALITY, GENDER ROLES, THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX, AND DREAMS6. Culture and Personality: A False Dichotomy / Roy G. D'Andrade; 7. On the "Petticoat Government" of the Eighteenth-Century Cherokee / Raymond D. Fogelson; 8. Male and Female in Four Changing Cultures / George and Louise Spindler; 9. Cloths of Heaven: Freud, Language, and the Negation in Pitjantjatjara Dreams / Aram Yengoyan; 10. From Empathy to Alienati.
Abstract:
Pyschological anthropology is a vital area of contemporary social science, and one of the field's most important and innovative thinkers is Melford E. Spiro. This volume brings together sixteen essays that review Spiro's theoretical insights and extend them into new areas. The essays center on several general problems: In what ways is it meaningful to speak of a social act as having ""functions""? What elements and processes of human personality are universal, and why? What is the relationship between religion and personality? Why? What are the pyschological underpinnings of social man
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