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Culture and Identity Charles Lindholm

Culture and Identity By Charles Lindholm

Culture and Identity by Charles Lindholm


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Charles Lindholm offers a sweeping introduction in this revised and updated edition of one of the leading textbooks on psychological anthropology.

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Culture and Identity: The History, Theory and Practice of Psychological Anthropology by Charles Lindholm

In this newly revised and updated edition,
Lindholm provides a comprehensive introduction
to psychological anthropology, deftly tracing the
growth of the field, introducing the key theorists,
and covering a broad range of contemporary
topics such as identity, emotions, symbolic
systems, and the psychology of groups.

Culture and Identity Reviews

This is a thorough, meaningful and grounded introduction to our discipline. It will certainly be required reading in my courses. * ETHOS: Journal of the Society for Pychological Anthropology *

About Charles Lindholm

Charles Lindholm is Professor in the prestigious University Professors Program and in the Department of Anthropology at Boston University. Prior to coming to Boston in 1990 he taught at Columbia, Barnard and Harvard, where he held a joint appointment in Anthropology and in Social Studies. His publications include Generosity and Jealousy: The Swat Pukhtun of Northern Pakistan (based on his dissertation) and a collection entitled Frontier Perspectives: Essays in Comparative Anthropology.

Table of Contents

Part 1
INTRODUCTION
1. Who Am I? The Search for the Self 3
Part 2
CULTURE AND THE INDIVIDUAL IN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY
2. The Discovery of the Individual 19
3. Authenticity and Its Vicissitudes 42
Part 3
THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF PERSONAL BEING
4. How Other Is the Other? 73
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5. The Psychoanalysis of Culture 112
6. Quandaries and Alternatives 139
7. Creativity and Alterity 168
xvi Brief Contents
Part 4
PROBLEMS AND SOME SOLUTIONS
8. Dialectics of Self and Other 205
9. The Thinking Animal 235
10. Feeling and Being 266
11. Outsiders and Charismatics 296
Part 5
APPLICATIONS
12. Love and Culture 333
13. Being an American 366
BIBLIOGRAPHY 399
INDEX 429

Additional information

CIN1851685286G
9781851685288
1851685286
Culture and Identity: The History, Theory and Practice of Psychological Anthropology by Charles Lindholm
Used - Good
Paperback
Oneworld Publications
20070801
480
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