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Thinking Through Cultures Richard A. Shweder

Thinking Through Cultures By Richard A. Shweder

Thinking Through Cultures by Richard A. Shweder


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Shweder calls for exploration of the human mind-and of one's own mind-by thinking through the ideas and practices of other peoples and their cultures. He examines evidence of cross-cultural similarities and differences in mind, self, emotion, and morality with special reference to the cultural psychology of a traditional Hindu temple town in India.

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Thinking Through Cultures: Expeditions in Cultural Psychology by Richard A. Shweder

A discipline is emerging called cultural psychology; it will serve as a force of renewal for both anthropology and psychology. In this book Richard Shweder presents its manifesto. Its central theme is that we have to understand the way persons, cultures, and natures make each other up. Its goal is to seek the mind indissociably embedded in the meanings and resonances that are both its product and its components.

Over the past thirty years the person as a category has disappeared from ethnography. Shweder aims to reverse this trend, focusing on the search for meaning and the creation of intentional worlds. He examines the prospect for a reconciliation of rationality and relativism and defines an intellectual agenda for cultural psychology.

What Shweder calls for is an exploration of the human mind, and of one's own mind, by thinking through the ideas and practices of other peoples and their cultures. He examines evidence of cross-cultural similarities and differences in mind, self, emotion, and morality with special reference to the cultural psychology of a traditional Hindu temple town in India, where he has done considerable work in comparative anthropology. And he critiques the concept of the person implicit in Western social science, as well as psychiatric theories of the subject. He maintains that it will come as no surprise to cultural psychology if it should turn out that there are different psychological generalizations or nomological networks-a Hindu psychology, a Protestant psychology-appropriate for the different semiotic regions of the world. Shweder brings the news that God is alive not dead, but that there are many gods.

Thinking Through Cultures Reviews

This welcome book opens new and challenging problems about the inseparability of mind and culture. -- Jerome Bruner

About Richard A. Shweder

Richard A. Shweder, a cultural anthropologist, is the William Claude Reavis Professor of Human Development, University of Chicago.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Astonishment of Anthropology Part 1: Ideal of a Polytheistic Nature 1. Post-Nietzschean Anthropology: The Ideal of Multiple Objective Worlds 2. Cultural Psychology: What Is It? Part 2: Are People the Same Wherever You Go? 3. Does the Concept of the Person Vary Cross-Culturally? with Edmund J. Bourne 4. The Social Construction of the Person: How Is It Possible? with Joan G. Miller 5. Determinations of Meaning: Discourse and Moral Socialization with Nancy C. Much 6. Menstrual Pollution, Soul Loss, and the Comparative Study of Emotions Part III: Experiments in Criticism 7. Rethinking Culture and Personality Theory 8. Suffering in Style: On Arthur Kleinman 9. How to Look at Medusa without Turning to Stone: On Gananath Obeyesekere Conclusion: Artful Realism Notes References Acknowledgments Index

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CIN0674884167VG
9780674884168
0674884167
Thinking Through Cultures: Expeditions in Cultural Psychology by Richard A. Shweder
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Harvard University Press
19910301
420
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