Psychological Anthropology

<i>Psychological Anthropology: A Reader in Self in Culture </i>presents a selection of readings from recent and classical literature with a rich diversity of insights into the individual and society. <ul type=”disc”> <li>Presents the latest psychological research from a variety of global cultures</li> <li>Sheds new light on historical continuities in psychological anthropology</li> <li>Explores the cultural relativity of emotional experience and moral concepts among diverse peoples, the Freudian influence and recent psychoanalytic trends in anthropology</li> <li>Addresses childhood and the acquisition of culture, an ethnographic focus on the self as portrayed in ritual and healing, and how psychological anthropology illuminates social change</li> </ul>