Advances in Culture Theory from Psychological Anthropology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Quinn, Naomi (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Culture, Mind, and Society
• Subjects: Cross-cultural psychology.; Ethnology.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Culture.; Gender.; Cross Cultural Psychology.; Cultural Anthropology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Culture and Gender.

This edited volume provides a long-overdue synthesis of the current directions in culture theory and represents some of the very best in ongoing research. Here, culture theory is rendered as a jigsaw puzzle: the book identifies where current research fits together, the as yet missing pieces, and the...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Some Proposed Advances in Culture Theory
• 2. Reflections on Culture
• 3. Culture from the Perspective of Dual Inheritance
• 4. Kinship, Funerals, and the Durability of Culture in Chuuk
• 5. An Anthropologist's View of American Marriage: Limitations of the Tool Kit Theory of Culture
• 6. The Complexities of Culture in Persons
• 7. Learning about Culture from Children: Lessons from Rural Sri Lanka
• 8. How Children Piece Together Culture through Relationships
• 9. Narrative and Healing in Dynamic Psychotherapy: Implications for Culture Theory.