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Advances in Culture Theory from Psychological Anthropology

Part of the Culture, Mind, and Society Book Series

Editors: Quinn, Naomi

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-93674-1

ISBN: 978-3-319-93673-4

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jul 26, 2018

1 - 10 of 10 Chapters

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Introduction: How This Volume Imagines Itself

Quinn, Naomi; Sirota, Karen Gainer; Stromberg, Peter G.

Pages: 1 –19

[This Introduction addresses some expectations about the book, leaving to its Conclusion the task of summarizing its claimed advances. It is important to appreciate that this is a mid-stream assessment, not a final synthesis, which would be premature. The achievements to which it points are,...
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Reflections on Culture

D’Andrade, Roy

Pages: 21 –45

[The culture concept has been a continuing source of conceptual difficulties. This chapter begins with some of the failed attempts to address those difficulties, which also cropped up in my own research. Thus, for example, D’Andrade found that a value can be either institutional or personal,...
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Culture from the Perspective of Dual Inheritance

Paul, Robert A.

Pages: 47 –73

[This chapter presents a brief outline of the version of Dual Inheritance Theory developed at greater length in the author’s 2015 book, Mixed Messages: Cultural and Genetic Inheritance in the Constitution of Human Society. Accordingly, that which distinguishes humans from other social animals is...
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Kinship, Funerals, and the Durability of Culture in Chuuk

Lowe, Edward D.

Pages: 75 –107

[This chapter asks what processes might contribute to the historical durability of cultural beliefs and practices over time and uses the historical durability of funerary rituals in Chuuk Lagoon as its empirical case. Through an analysis of ethnographic materials from Chuuk Lagoon, the author...
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The Complexity of Culture in Persons

Strauss, Claudia

Pages: 109 –138

[Public culture both creates and depends upon encultured minds. Nonetheless, culture in persons is not simply a mirror of public culture. In this chapter, Strauss draws upon research with Americans from diverse socioeconomic and racial groups to argue that culture in persons is complex. There are...
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An Anthropologist’s View of American Marriage: Limitations of the Tool Kit Theory of Culture

Quinn, Naomi

Pages: 139 –184

[In spite of our temporally concurrent research, striking similarities between what this chapter author’s interviewees said on the subject, and our approaches to interviewing them, Ann Swidler and the author, Quinn, reached opposing explanations for the relation between love and marriage. For...
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Learning about Culture from Children: Lessons from Rural Sri Lanka

Chapin, Bambi L.

Pages: 185 –209

[In this chapter, Chapin argues that research with children is crucial for developing a more robust theory of culture. Drawing on her ethnographic work with Sinhala children in a predominantly Buddhist village in central Sri Lanka, Chapin makes five points about culture. (1) People develop and...
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How Children Piece Together Culture through Relationships

Sirota, Karen Gainer

Pages: 211 –245

[This chapter provides an overview of Gestalt theory and its relevance to psychological anthropology. Drawing on Gestalt principles, the chapter introduces the concept of configurational learning. It argues that this learning facilitates children’s sense-making capacities as they are mentored...
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Narrative and Healing in Dynamic Psychotherapy: Implications for Culture Theory

Stromberg, Peter G.

Pages: 247 –284

[In dynamic psychotherapies, people work to address troubling thoughts, actions, and feelings by talking about themselves and their experiences. How can such talk ameliorate mental health symptoms? This chapter proposes an answer to this question that circumvents the central barrier to answering...
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Conclusion: Some Advances in Culture Theory

Quinn, Naomi; Sirota, Karen Gainer; Stromberg, Peter G.

Pages: 285 –327

[This Conclusion synthesizes the volume’s advances, beginning with Roy D’Andrade’s insight that culture is organized by lifeworlds. The next chapter, by Robert Paul, supports D’Andrade’s approach to culture and the inevitable conflict between self-interest and the group concerns that culture...

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