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The relationship between everyday experience and culture - seen as a set of ideas, values, or symbolic codes - has challenged social scientists, especially anthropologists, for more than a century. In this volume, leading social scientists present and discuss recent conceptions of culture and explore their implications for understanding different aspects of subjective experience, social practice, and individual behavior. The focus of the volume is on the role of symbols and meaning in the development of mind, self, and emotion. The contributors examine such questions as what is the content of culture and how does it interact with cognitive, social, and emotional growth; how are ideas related to attitudes, feelings, and behavior; how are concepts and meanings historically transmitted. They also explore methodological and conceptual problems involved in the definition and study of meaning, and revisit the perennial problem of 'relativism' in light of recent advances in semantic analysis and in culture theory. As a comprehensive and critical account of current knowledge and research in the field of culture theory, this book will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience of anthropologists, psychologists, philosophers, historians, and linguists, as well as those interested in hermeneutics and a science of subjectivity.
| Culture Theory: An Introduction | |
| Anthropology's romantic rebellion against the enlightenment, or there's more to thinking than reason and evidence | |
| Properties of culture: an ethnographic view | |
| Cultural meaning systems | |
| Culture, Self, and Emotion | |
| 'From the native's point of view: on the nature of anthropological understanding | |
| Toward an anthropology of self and feeling | |
| Does the concept of the person vary cross-culturally? | |
| Understanding people | |
| Emotion, knowing and culture | |
| Getting angry: the Jamesian theory of emotion in anthropology | |
| Culture, Language, and Thought | |
| The development of competence in culturally defined domains: a preliminary framework | |
| Language acquisition and socialization: three developmental stories and their implications | |
| Commentary | |
| Some reflections on cultural determinism and relativism with special reference to emotion and reason | |
| Name index | |
| Subject index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
ISBN: 9780521318310
ISBN-10: 0521318319
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 372
Published: 15th April 1985
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 22.8 x 15.2
x 2.1
Weight (kg): 0.5
