Psychological Anthropology

<i>Psychological Anthropology: A Reader in Self in Culture </i>presents a selection of readings from recent and classical literature with a rich diversity of insights into the individual and society. <ul><li>Presents the latest psychological research from a variety of global cultures</li><li>Sheds new light on historical continuities in psychological anthropology</li><li>Explores the cultural relativity of emotional experience and moral concepts among diverse peoples, the Freudian influence and recent psychoanalytic trends in anthropology</li><li>Addresses childhood and the acquisition of culture, an ethnographic focus on the self as portrayed in ritual and healing, and how psychological anthropology illuminates social change</li></ul>