Psychological Anthropology

Robert A. LeVine is Roy E. Larsen Professor of Education and Human Development, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He is author or editor of numerous books and articles, including most recently, Anthropology and Child Development (Blackwell, 2008, with Rebecca New), and is the recipient of both the Career Contribution Award from the Society for Psychological Anthropology and the Distinguished Contributions Award from the American Educational Research Association.

"Vividly picture, frame, and imagine an exploratory vivisection of an entire human brain by 18 or so individuals from different specializations, research areas, and training levels doing talking points as each cuts, cleans, rinses, exposes, or excises the above at will into 23 overlapping chunks. If you can mentally formulate this image and want to know more, then Psychological Anthropology: A Reader on Self in Culture is a book for you." (PsycCritiques, December 2010)

• Acknowledgments xIntroduction 1Part I Constructing a Paradigm, 1917–55 7Introduction – Invisible Pioneers: “Culture and Personality” Reconsidered 91 The Polish Peasant in Europe and America 18W. I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki2 The Psychology of Culture 23Edward Sapir3 Culture and Experience 30A. Irving HallowellPart II Emotion and Morality in Diverse Cultures 53Introduction – Human Variations: A Population Perspective on Psychological Processes 554 Emotions Have Many Faces: Inuit Lessons 60Jean Briggs5 Moral Discourse and the Rhetoric of Emotion 68Geoffrey M. White6 Kali’s Tongue 83Usha Menon and Richard A. Shweder7 Shame and Guilt in Japan 102Takie Lebra8 Introduction to Culture and Depression 112Arthur Kleinman and Byron GoodPart III Psychoanalytic Explorations through Fieldwork 117Introduction – After Freud: Dramas of the Psyche in Cultural Context 1199 Psychoanalytic Anthropology 124Robert A. Paul10 Is the Oedipus Complex Universal? 131Anne Parsons11 Kagwahiv Mourning I: Dreams of a Bereaved Father 154Waud H. Kracke12 Kagwahiv Mourning II: Ghosts, Grief, and Reminiscences 165Waud H. KrackePart IV Childhood: Internalizing Cultural Schemas 175Introduction – Childhood Experience: The Role of Communication 17713 Cultural and Educational Variations in Maternal Responsiveness 181Amy L. Richman, Patrice M. Miller, and Robert A. LeVine14 Self-Construction through Narrative Practices: A Chinese and American Comparison of Early Socialization 193Peggy J. Miller, Heidi Fung, and Judith Mintz15 Parent–Child Communication Problems and the Perceived Inadequacies of Chinese Only Children 220Vanessa L. FongPart V The Self in Everyday Life, Ritual, and Healing 239Introduction – Cultural Narratives of Self: Strategies, Defenses, and Identities 24116 The Self in Daily Dramas 245Thomas Gregor17 Sambia Nose-Bleeding Rites and Male Proximity to Women 269Gilbert H. Herdt18 Cross-Cultural Differences in the Self 295Douglas Hollan19 Clinical Paradigm Clashes 309Joseph D. CalabresePart VI Psychosocial Processes in History and Social Transformation 325Introduction – Culture Change: Psychosocial Processes in Social Transformation 32720 The Psychosocial Experience of Immigration 329Carola Suárez-Orozco and Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco21 The Schooling of Women: Maternal Behavior and Child Environments 345Robert A. LeVine and Sarah A. LeVine22 Revitalization Movements 351Anthony F. C. Wallace23 Culture, Charisma, and Consciousness 365Charles LindholmIndex 378