The Psychology of Cultural Experience

The essays in this volume, first published in 2001, focus upon the relationship of individual experience to culture, and chart a research agenda for psychological anthropology in the twenty-first century. Drawing upon fieldwork in diverse cultural settings, the authors use a range of contemporary perspectives in the field, including person-centred ethnography, activity theory, attachment theory and cultural schema theory, to describe the ways in which people think, feel, remember, and solve problems. Fascinating insights emerge from these fine-grained accounts of personal experience. The research demonstrates that it is possible to identify cross-cultural universals in psychological development and mental states, and that individual psychology is not determined solely by unique cultural patterns.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521803195
• ISBN13: 9780521803199
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"