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Personality and the Cultural Construction of Society.
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 cente...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
1990.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.