A Companion to Psychological Anthropology: Modernity and Psychocultural Change

Casey, Conerly; Edgerton, Robert B.

This Companion provides the first definitive overview of psychocultural anthropology: a subject that focuses on cultural, psychological, and social interrelations across cultures.

• Brings together original essays by leading scholars in the field
• Offers an in-depth exploration of the concepts and topics that have emerged through contemporary ethnographic work and the processes of global change
• Key issues range from studies of consciousness and time, emotion, cognition, dreaming, and memory, to the lingering effects of racism and ethnocentrism, violence, identity and subjectivity

Details

Published by: Wiley-Blackwell

Publication Date: 2007-10-15

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781405162555

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Dimensions: 246.4cm x172.7cm

Pages: 560.0