Jaan Valsiner, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology, Clark University, and founding editor of the journal Culture and Psychology.

Dozens of distinguished authors from all over the world contribute to this comprehensive handbook, covering 52 different topics in its 1130-plus pages. The comparison and contrast of various cultures provides readers with a thorough understanding of human behaviour. The book should be in the libraries of both students and professionals. 5 stars!

• Contents ; Part I. Historical linkages of culture and psychology ; Introduction: Culture in Psychology: A renewed encounter of inquisitive minds ; Jaan Valsiner ; 1. Culture and psychology: words and ideas in history ; Gustav Jahoda ; 2. Volkerpsychologie ; Rainer Diriwachter ; 3. Cultural-historical psychology: Contributions of Lev Vygotsky ; Rene van der Veer ; Part II. Inter- and intra-disciplinary perspectives ; 4. The role of indigenous psychologies in the building of basic cultural psychology ; Pradeep Chakkarath ; 5. Cultural anthropology ; Susan Rasmussen ; 6. Cross-cultural psychology: Taking people, contexts and situations seriously ; Heidi Keller ; 7. Archaeology and the study of material culture: synergies with cultural psychology ; Alfredo Gonzalez-Ruibal ; Part III. Positions in the field ; 8. Enactivism ; Cor Baerveldt and Theo Verhaggen ; 9. Positioning Theory: Moral Dimensions of Social-Cultural Psychology ; Rom Harre ; 10. Macro-cultural psychology ; Carl Ratner ; Part IV. Semiosis in culture and psychology ; 11. Social life of the sign: sensemaking in society ; Sergio Salvatore ; 12. Meaningful Connections: Semiotics, Cultural Psychology, and the Forms of Sense ; Robert Innis ; 13. The City as a Sign: A Developmental-Experiential Approach to Spatial Life ; Nikita A. Kharlamov ; 14. Modeling Iconic Literacy: The Dynamic Models for Complex Cultural Objects ; Rebeca Puche-Navarro ; 15. Existential semiotics and cultural psychology ; Eero Tarasti ; Part V. Action, self, and narration ; 16. Culture: Result and condition of action ; Ernest Boesch ; 17. Culture inclusive action theory: Action theory in dialectics and dialectics in action theory ; Lutz Eckensberger ; 18. The Other in the Self: A triadic unit ; Livia Mathias Simao ; 19. Dialogical Theory of Selfhood ; Tiago Bento, Carla Cunha, and Joao Salgado ; 20. Narrative Scenarios: Toward a Culturally Thick Notion of Narrative ; Jens Brockmeier ; 21. Culture in Action: A discursive approach ; Kyoko Murakami ; 22. Social Representations as Anthropology of Culture ; Ivana Markova ; Part VI. Tools for living: transcending social limitations ; 23. Life course: A sociocultural perspective ; Tania Zittoun ; 24. Being poor: cultural tools for survival ; Ana Cecilia S. Bastos and Elaine P. Rabinovich ; 25. Cultural Psychology of Racial Ideology in Historical Perspective: An Analytic Approach to Understanding Racialized Societies and Their Psychological Effects on Lives ; Cynthia E. Winston and Michael R. Winston ; 26. Belonging to gender: Social identities, symbolic boundaries and images ; Ana Flavia do Amaral Madureira ; 27. Risk and culture ; Bob Heyman ; 28. Constructing histories ; Mario Carretero and Angela Bermudez ; Part VII. Emergence of culture ; 29. Roots of culture in the Umwelt ; Riin Magnus and Kalevi Kull ; 30. Culture and Epigenesis: A Waddingtonian View ; Iddo Tavory, Eva Jablonka, and Simona Ginsburg ; 31. From material to symbolic cultures: Culture in primates ; Christophe Boesch ; Part VIII. Human movement through culture ; 32. Encountering Alterity: Geographic and Semantic Movements ; Alex Gillespie, Irini Kadianaki, and Ria O'Sullivan-Lago ; 33. Crossing Thresholds: Movement as a Means of Transformation ; Zachary Beckstead ; 34. Never at Home? Migrants between Societies ; Mariann Martsin and Hala W. Mahmoud ; Part IX. Culture of higher social regulators: values, magic, and duties ; 35. Values and sociocultural practices: pathways to moral development ; Angela Uchoa Branco ; 36. The inter-generational continuity of values ; M. Bame Nsamenang ; 37. The Making of Magic: Cultural constructions of the mundane supernatural ; Meike Watzlawik, Jaan Valsiner ; 38. Duties and Rights ; Fathali M. Moghaddam, Cristina Novoa, and Zachary Warren ; Part X. Cultural interfaces: persons and institutions ; 39. The Interface between the Sociology of Practice and the Analysis of Talk in the Study of Change in Educational Settings ; Harry Daniels ; 40. The work of schooling ; Guiseppina Marsico and Antonio Iannacone ; 41. Helping and Collaborating as Cultural Practices ; Angelica Lopez, Behnosh Najafi, Barbara Rogoff, and Rebeca Mejia Arauz ; 42. Design Experimentation and Mutual Appropriation: Two Strategies for Implementing Intervention Research ; Deborah Downing-Wilson, Robert Lecusay, and Michael Cole ; Part XI. Social networks and cultural affectivity ; 43. Affective networks: The social terrain of a complex culture ; Nandita Chaudhary ; 44. Peer relations ; Li Xiao-wen ; 45. Culture in play ; Bert van Oers ; 46. Affect and culture ; Manfred Holodynski and Wolfgang Friedlmeier ; Part XII. Towards methodological innovations for cultural psychology ; 47. Ambivalence and its transformations ; Emily Abbey ; 48. Guesses on the future of cultural psychology: Past, present-and-past ; Aaro Toomela ; 49. Culture in Constructive Remembering ; Brady Wagoner ; 50. How can we study interactions mediated by money as a cultural tool: From the perspectives of <"Cultural Psychology of Differences>" as a dialogical method ; Toshiya Yamamoto, Noboru Takahashi, Tatsuya Sato, Takeo Kazuku, Oh Seonah, and Pian Chengnan ; 51. The Authentic Culture of Living Well: Pathways to psychological well-being ; Tatsuya Sato, Mari Fukuda, Tomo Hidaka, Ayae Kido, Miki Nishida, and Mayu Akasaka ; 52. Psychology Courting Culture: Future directions and their implications ; Jaan Valsiner

Jaan Valsiner, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology, Clark University, and founding editor of the journal Culture and Psychology.

Dozens of distinguished authors from all over the world contribute to this comprehensive handbook, covering 52 different topics in its 1130-plus pages. The comparison and contrast of various cultures provides readers with a thorough understanding of human behaviour. The book should be in the libraries of both students and professionals. 5 stars!

• Contents ; Part I. Historical linkages of culture and psychology ; Introduction: Culture in Psychology: A renewed encounter of inquisitive minds ; Jaan Valsiner ; 1. Culture and psychology: words and ideas in history ; Gustav Jahoda ; 2. Volkerpsychologie ; Rainer Diriwachter ; 3. Cultural-historical psychology: Contributions of Lev Vygotsky ; Rene van der Veer ; Part II. Inter- and intra-disciplinary perspectives ; 4. The role of indigenous psychologies in the building of basic cultural psychology ; Pradeep Chakkarath ; 5. Cultural anthropology ; Susan Rasmussen ; 6. Cross-cultural psychology: Taking people, contexts and situations seriously ; Heidi Keller ; 7. Archaeology and the study of material culture: synergies with cultural psychology ; Alfredo Gonzalez-Ruibal ; Part III. Positions in the field ; 8. Enactivism ; Cor Baerveldt and Theo Verhaggen ; 9. Positioning Theory: Moral Dimensions of Social-Cultural Psychology ; Rom Harre ; 10. Macro-cultural psychology ; Carl Ratner ; Part IV. Semiosis in culture and psychology ; 11. Social life of the sign: sensemaking in society ; Sergio Salvatore ; 12. Meaningful Connections: Semiotics, Cultural Psychology, and the Forms of Sense ; Robert Innis ; 13. The City as a Sign: A Developmental-Experiential Approach to Spatial Life ; Nikita A. Kharlamov ; 14. Modeling Iconic Literacy: The Dynamic Models for Complex Cultural Objects ; Rebeca Puche-Navarro ; 15. Existential semiotics and cultural psychology ; Eero Tarasti ; Part V. Action, self, and narration ; 16. Culture: Result and condition of action ; Ernest Boesch ; 17. Culture inclusive action theory: Action theory in dialectics and dialectics in action theory ; Lutz Eckensberger ; 18. The Other in the Self: A triadic unit ; Livia Mathias Simao ; 19. Dialogical Theory of Selfhood ; Tiago Bento, Carla Cunha, and Joao Salgado ; 20. Narrative Scenarios: Toward a Culturally Thick Notion of Narrative ; Jens Brockmeier ; 21. Culture in Action: A discursive approach ; Kyoko Murakami ; 22. Social Representations as Anthropology of Culture ; Ivana Markova ; Part VI. Tools for living: transcending social limitations ; 23. Life course: A sociocultural perspective ; Tania Zittoun ; 24. Being poor: cultural tools for survival ; Ana Cecilia S. Bastos and Elaine P. Rabinovich ; 25. Cultural Psychology of Racial Ideology in Historical Perspective: An Analytic Approach to Understanding Racialized Societies and Their Psychological Effects on Lives ; Cynthia E. Winston and Michael R. Winston ; 26. Belonging to gender: Social identities, symbolic boundaries and images ; Ana Flavia do Amaral Madureira ; 27. Risk and culture ; Bob Heyman ; 28. Constructing histories ; Mario Carretero and Angela Bermudez ; Part VII. Emergence of culture ; 29. Roots of culture in the Umwelt ; Riin Magnus and Kalevi Kull ; 30. Culture and Epigenesis: A Waddingtonian View ; Iddo Tavory, Eva Jablonka, and Simona Ginsburg ; 31. From material to symbolic cultures: Culture in primates ; Christophe Boesch ; Part VIII. Human movement through culture ; 32. Encountering Alterity: Geographic and Semantic Movements ; Alex Gillespie, Irini Kadianaki, and Ria O'Sullivan-Lago ; 33. Crossing Thresholds: Movement as a Means of Transformation ; Zachary Beckstead ; 34. Never at Home? Migrants between Societies ; Mariann Martsin and Hala W. Mahmoud ; Part IX. Culture of higher social regulators: values, magic, and duties ; 35. Values and sociocultural practices: pathways to moral development ; Angela Uchoa Branco ; 36. The inter-generational continuity of values ; M. Bame Nsamenang ; 37. The Making of Magic: Cultural constructions of the mundane supernatural ; Meike Watzlawik, Jaan Valsiner ; 38. Duties and Rights ; Fathali M. Moghaddam, Cristina Novoa, and Zachary Warren ; Part X. Cultural interfaces: persons and institutions ; 39. The Interface between the Sociology of Practice and the Analysis of Talk in the Study of Change in Educational Settings ; Harry Daniels ; 40. The work of schooling ; Guiseppina Marsico and Antonio Iannacone ; 41. Helping and Collaborating as Cultural Practices ; Angelica Lopez, Behnosh Najafi, Barbara Rogoff, and Rebeca Mejia Arauz ; 42. Design Experimentation and Mutual Appropriation: Two Strategies for Implementing Intervention Research ; Deborah Downing-Wilson, Robert Lecusay, and Michael Cole ; Part XI. Social networks and cultural affectivity ; 43. Affective networks: The social terrain of a complex culture ; Nandita Chaudhary ; 44. Peer relations ; Li Xiao-wen ; 45. Culture in play ; Bert van Oers ; 46. Affect and culture ; Manfred Holodynski and Wolfgang Friedlmeier ; Part XII. Towards methodological innovations for cultural psychology ; 47. Ambivalence and its transformations ; Emily Abbey ; 48. Guesses on the future of cultural psychology: Past, present-and-past ; Aaro Toomela ; 49. Culture in Constructive Remembering ; Brady Wagoner ; 50. How can we study interactions mediated by money as a cultural tool: From the perspectives of <"Cultural Psychology of Differences>" as a dialogical method ; Toshiya Yamamoto, Noboru Takahashi, Tatsuya Sato, Takeo Kazuku, Oh Seonah, and Pian Chengnan ; 51. The Authentic Culture of Living Well: Pathways to psychological well-being ; Tatsuya Sato, Mari Fukuda, Tomo Hidaka, Ayae Kido, Miki Nishida, and Mayu Akasaka ; 52. Psychology Courting Culture: Future directions and their implications ; Jaan Valsiner

Jaan Valsiner, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology, Clark University, and founding editor of the journal Culture and Psychology.

Dozens of distinguished authors from all over the world contribute to this comprehensive handbook, covering 52 different topics in its 1130-plus pages. The comparison and contrast of various cultures provides readers with a thorough understanding of human behaviour. The book should be in the libraries of both students and professionals. 5 stars!

• Contents ; Part I. Historical linkages of culture and psychology ; Introduction: Culture in Psychology: A renewed encounter of inquisitive minds ; Jaan Valsiner ; 1. Culture and psychology: words and ideas in history ; Gustav Jahoda ; 2. Volkerpsychologie ; Rainer Diriwachter ; 3. Cultural-historical psychology: Contributions of Lev Vygotsky ; Rene van der Veer ; Part II. Inter- and intra-disciplinary perspectives ; 4. The role of indigenous psychologies in the building of basic cultural psychology ; Pradeep Chakkarath ; 5. Cultural anthropology ; Susan Rasmussen ; 6. Cross-cultural psychology: Taking people, contexts and situations seriously ; Heidi Keller ; 7. Archaeology and the study of material culture: synergies with cultural psychology ; Alfredo Gonzalez-Ruibal ; Part III. Positions in the field ; 8. Enactivism ; Cor Baerveldt and Theo Verhaggen ; 9. Positioning Theory: Moral Dimensions of Social-Cultural Psychology ; Rom Harre ; 10. Macro-cultural psychology ; Carl Ratner ; Part IV. Semiosis in culture and psychology ; 11. Social life of the sign: sensemaking in society ; Sergio Salvatore ; 12. Meaningful Connections: Semiotics, Cultural Psychology, and the Forms of Sense ; Robert Innis ; 13. The City as a Sign: A Developmental-Experiential Approach to Spatial Life ; Nikita A. Kharlamov ; 14. Modeling Iconic Literacy: The Dynamic Models for Complex Cultural Objects ; Rebeca Puche-Navarro ; 15. Existential semiotics and cultural psychology ; Eero Tarasti ; Part V. Action, self, and narration ; 16. Culture: Result and condition of action ; Ernest Boesch ; 17. Culture inclusive action theory: Action theory in dialectics and dialectics in action theory ; Lutz Eckensberger ; 18. The Other in the Self: A triadic unit ; Livia Mathias Simao ; 19. Dialogical Theory of Selfhood ; Tiago Bento, Carla Cunha, and Joao Salgado ; 20. Narrative Scenarios: Toward a Culturally Thick Notion of Narrative ; Jens Brockmeier ; 21. Culture in Action: A discursive approach ; Kyoko Murakami ; 22. Social Representations as Anthropology of Culture ; Ivana Markova ; Part VI. Tools for living: transcending social limitations ; 23. Life course: A sociocultural perspective ; Tania Zittoun ; 24. Being poor: cultural tools for survival ; Ana Cecilia S. Bastos and Elaine P. Rabinovich ; 25. Cultural Psychology of Racial Ideology in Historical Perspective: An Analytic Approach to Understanding Racialized Societies and Their Psychological Effects on Lives ; Cynthia E. Winston and Michael R. Winston ; 26. Belonging to gender: Social identities, symbolic boundaries and images ; Ana Flavia do Amaral Madureira ; 27. Risk and culture ; Bob Heyman ; 28. Constructing histories ; Mario Carretero and Angela Bermudez ; Part VII. Emergence of culture ; 29. Roots of culture in the Umwelt ; Riin Magnus and Kalevi Kull ; 30. Culture and Epigenesis: A Waddingtonian View ; Iddo Tavory, Eva Jablonka, and Simona Ginsburg ; 31. From material to symbolic cultures: Culture in primates ; Christophe Boesch ; Part VIII. Human movement through culture ; 32. Encountering Alterity: Geographic and Semantic Movements ; Alex Gillespie, Irini Kadianaki, and Ria O'Sullivan-Lago ; 33. Crossing Thresholds: Movement as a Means of Transformation ; Zachary Beckstead ; 34. Never at Home? Migrants between Societies ; Mariann Martsin and Hala W. Mahmoud ; Part IX. Culture of higher social regulators: values, magic, and duties ; 35. Values and sociocultural practices: pathways to moral development ; Angela Uchoa Branco ; 36. The inter-generational continuity of values ; M. Bame Nsamenang ; 37. The Making of Magic: Cultural constructions of the mundane supernatural ; Meike Watzlawik, Jaan Valsiner ; 38. Duties and Rights ; Fathali M. Moghaddam, Cristina Novoa, and Zachary Warren ; Part X. Cultural interfaces: persons and institutions ; 39. The Interface between the Sociology of Practice and the Analysis of Talk in the Study of Change in Educational Settings ; Harry Daniels ; 40. The work of schooling ; Guiseppina Marsico and Antonio Iannacone ; 41. Helping and Collaborating as Cultural Practices ; Angelica Lopez, Behnosh Najafi, Barbara Rogoff, and Rebeca Mejia Arauz ; 42. Design Experimentation and Mutual Appropriation: Two Strategies for Implementing Intervention Research ; Deborah Downing-Wilson, Robert Lecusay, and Michael Cole ; Part XI. Social networks and cultural affectivity ; 43. Affective networks: The social terrain of a complex culture ; Nandita Chaudhary ; 44. Peer relations ; Li Xiao-wen ; 45. Culture in play ; Bert van Oers ; 46. Affect and culture ; Manfred Holodynski and Wolfgang Friedlmeier ; Part XII. Towards methodological innovations for cultural psychology ; 47. Ambivalence and its transformations ; Emily Abbey ; 48. Guesses on the future of cultural psychology: Past, present-and-past ; Aaro Toomela ; 49. Culture in Constructive Remembering ; Brady Wagoner ; 50. How can we study interactions mediated by money as a cultural tool: From the perspectives of <"Cultural Psychology of Differences>" as a dialogical method ; Toshiya Yamamoto, Noboru Takahashi, Tatsuya Sato, Takeo Kazuku, Oh Seonah, and Pian Chengnan ; 51. The Authentic Culture of Living Well: Pathways to psychological well-being ; Tatsuya Sato, Mari Fukuda, Tomo Hidaka, Ayae Kido, Miki Nishida, and Mayu Akasaka ; 52. Psychology Courting Culture: Future directions and their implications ; Jaan Valsiner