| Description |
x, 221 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Mind, culture and history -- Frontiers of humanity: the changing outlook from antiquity to the seventeenth century -- Part I. Eighteenth -century preludes -- Philosophers of the enlightenment: Nature, human nature and progress -- The 'observateurs of de l'Homme' -- The dissenters: Culture, history and mind -- Part II. The positivist tradition -- Biology, race and mind -- 'Psychic unity' and social evolution -- Towards cross-cultural psychology -- Part III. German idealism and Volkerpsychologie -- The beginnings of Volkerpsychologie -- Psychology: A science or culture-historical discipline? -- Wundt's Volkerpsychologie and kultur -- Epilogue: Old wine in new bottles. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [196]-210) and indexes. |
| Subject |
Ethnopsychology.
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Ethnopsychology -- History.
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| ISBN |
0674177754 |
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