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Author Shweder, Richard A.

Title Thinking through cultures : expeditions in cultural psychology / Richard A. Shweder.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1991.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  155.8 S562T    Check Shelf
Description vii, 404 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction: The astonishment of anthropology -- pt. I. Ideas of a polytheistic nature. Post-Nietzschean anthropology: the idea of multiple objective worlds -- Cultural psychology: what is it? -- pt. II. Are people the same wherever you go? Does the concept of the person vary cross-culturally? / with Edmund J. Bourne -- The social construction of the person: how is it possible? / with Joan G. Miller -- Determinations of meaning: discourse and moral socialization / with Nancy C. Much -- Menstrual pollution, soul loss, and the comparative study of emotions -- pt. III. Experiments in criticism. Rethinking culture and personality theory -- Suffering in style: on Arthur Kleinman -- How to look at Medusa without turning to stone: on Gananath Obeyesekere -- Conclusion: artful realism.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-388) and index.
Subject Ethnopsychology.
Personality and culture.
Cognition and culture.
Ethnology.
Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Ethnopsychology.
Cognition.
Personality.
Indexed Term Ethnopsychology
ISBN 0674884159 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0674884167 (paper : acid-free paper)
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