Bücher der Reihe Advances in Cultural Psychology

The ubiquitous presence of imaginative work points at its importance among the higher mental functions. This volume discusses both the social relevance of imagination, that cannot be reduced to an inter-individual feature, and the cultural-historical conditions of imagining.

The ubiquitous presence of imaginative work points at its importance among the higher mental functions. This volume discusses both the social relevance of imagination, that cannot be reduced to an inter-individual feature, and the cultural-historical conditions of imagining.

Ornamented Lives is a theoretical synthesis of cultural psychology, aesthetics, and philosophy of meaning construction. It is an extension of the author's theory of Semiotic Dynamics (Culture in Minds and Societies, 2007) to the field of ornaments. Ornaments are not merely "e;decorations"e; but play the important role of guiding the affective depths of the human minds. This is done by capturing the whole fields of perceivable peripheral spaces and filling them with highly recursive forms. The book concentrates on the visual ornaments of various kinds, indicating in them the tensions between basic forms-linear and curvilinear. This tension is present in human construction of environments-natural growth involves curvilinear forms while human constructions introduce linearity. The basic tension between linear and curvilinear infinities is expressed in the use of spiral forms in art and architecture. The book builds a theoretical account of human beings constantly creating sublime life occasions that give them affective charge for dramatizations of ordinary living. Episodically the sublime acquires new quality-becomes aesthetic. The coverage in this book links the aesthetic, the sublime, and the mundane into one theoretical scheme within cultural psychology.

Umwelt, literally 'outer-world', is the study of the organism in relation to the world around it, as well as the meaning that the world holds for that organism. This book examines unique aspects of the natural world by relating the inner world of the subject and the objects to which that organism attends.

Per Linell took his degree in linguistics and is currently professor of language and culture, with a specialisation on communication and spoken interaction, at the University of Linkoeping, Sweden. He has been instrumental in building up an internationally renowned interdisciplinary graduate school in communication studies in Linkoeping. He has worked for many years on developing a dialogical alternative to mainstream theories in linguistics, psychology and social sciences. His production comprises more than 100 articles on dialogue, talkininteraction and institutional discourse. His more recent books include Approaching Dialogue (1998), The Written Language Bias in Linguistics (2005) and Dialogue in Focus Groups (2007, with I. Markova, M. Grossen and A. Salazar Orvig).

Provides coverage of the new methodological perspective in cultural psychology-TEA (Trajectory Equifinality Approach) that was established in 2004 as a collaboration of Japanese and American cultural psychologists. In the decade that follows it has become a guiding approach for cultural psychology all over the world.

Provides coverage of the new methodological perspective in cultural psychology-TEA (Trajectory Equifinality Approach) that was established in 2004 as a collaboration of Japanese and American cultural psychologists. In the decade that follows it has become a guiding approach for cultural psychology all over the world.

Delivers a new and challenging theoretical and methodological tool box, inspired by insights developed from a broad cultural psychological perspective. The book's focus is on the consideration of work and organisations based on core concepts developed inside cultural psychology.

Delivers a new and challenging theoretical and methodological tool box, inspired by insights developed from a broad cultural psychological perspective. The book's focus is on the consideration of work and organisations based on core concepts developed inside cultural psychology.

This book forms a basis and a starting point for a closer dialogue between musicologists, anthropologists and psychologists to achieve a better understanding of the cultural psychology of musical experience. This is done by arranging a meeting point or an arena in which different aspects of psychology and musicology touch and encounters each other due to how the two fields might be defined today.

This book forms a basis and a starting point for a closer dialogue between musicologists, anthropologists and psychologists to achieve a better understanding of the cultural psychology of musical experience. This is done by arranging a meeting point or an arena in which different aspects of psychology and musicology touch and encounters each other due to how the two fields might be defined today.

Critically articulates some theoretical and methodological issues of cultural psychology with the research and practical work of psychologists with Amerindian peoples. The book offers a meta-theoretical reflection that aims to bring in new theoretical-methodological and ethical reflections to Cultural Psychology.

Critically articulates some theoretical and methodological issues of cultural psychology with the research and practical work of psychologists with Amerindian peoples. The book offers a meta-theoretical reflection that aims to bring in new theoretical-methodological and ethical reflections to Cultural Psychology.

Explores how attending to meaning-making processes becomes crucial when researching or intervening within cultural encounters and global everyday life. It is through listening to the foreign other, to attend to their immediate experiences, as well as exploring how meaning may be mediated and co-constructed by them in everyday life that collaboration can be created and sustained.

Explores how attending to meaning-making processes becomes crucial when researching or intervening within cultural encounters and global everyday life. It is through listening to the foreign other, to attend to their immediate experiences, as well as exploring how meaning may be mediated and co-constructed by them in everyday life that collaboration can be created and sustained.

This book is about caring for elderly persons in the 21th century. It shows that care has many facets and is influenced by many factors.

This book is about caring for elderly persons in the 21th century. It shows that care has many facets and is influenced by many factors.

This work attempts to bridge the theoretical, methodological, and practice oriented issues revolving around the notion of biographical ruptures and their repairs from cultural psychological perspectives in order to bring novel understandings to the debateof what it means to be a developing human being in an ever changing world.

This work attempts to bridge the theoretical, methodological, and practice oriented issues revolving around the notion of biographical ruptures and their repairs from cultural psychological perspectives in order to bring novel understandings to the debateof what it means to be a developing human being in an ever changing world.

Cultural psychology is in a phase of rapid growth. Innovating Genesis is an example of how the central aspect of any science - its methodology - undergoes revolutionary transformation. By looking to the history of how holistic ideas might help our investigations, this book shows how contemporary science has something to learn from its own history.

Cultural psychology is in a phase of rapid growth. Innovating Genesis is an example of how the central aspect of any science - its methodology - undergoes revolutionary transformation. By looking to the history of how holistic ideas might help our investigations, this book shows how contemporary science has something to learn from its own history.

Cultural psychology of today is an attempt to advance the program of research that was charted out by Wilhelm Wundt - yet at times we are carefully avoiding direct recognition of such continuity. This book presents a theory of culture in psychology since Wilhelm Wundt's ""Volkerpsychologie"" of the first decades of the twentieth century.