Bücher der Reihe Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology

A collection of essays by John Whiting, a leading figure in psychological anthropology and a pioneer in the development of systematic cross-cultural research. This book, first published in 1993, includes some of his most influential articles on culture and human development, and a comprehensive autobiographical essay.

Are emotions given by biology or are they learnt? Are they the same everywhere, or culturally variable? Research in this field tends to be polarised between neo-Darwinian and culturalist perspectives. This volume, first published in 1999, attempts to transcend the traditional oppositions, proposing various strategies for integrating both approaches to the study of emotion.

Are emotions given by biology or are they learnt? Are they the same everywhere, or culturally variable? Research in this field tends to be polarised between neo-Darwinian and culturalist perspectives. This volume, first published in 1999, attempts to transcend the traditional oppositions, proposing various strategies for integrating both approaches to the study of emotion.

Collective violence changes perpetrators, victims, and societies, targetting body, psyche, and socio-cultural order. This collection by anthropologists, psychologists and psychoanalysts, draws on research in many different parts of the world, providing insights into the darker side of humanity, and proposing new ways of understanding the horrors people are capable of.

In this book, first published in 2002, scholars in contemporary psychological anthropology who have contributed to critical social theory and social construction of selfhood and identity examine the relations between political structures and economic circumstances on the one hand, and motivations, emotions and meanings on the other.

In this book, first published in 2002, scholars in contemporary psychological anthropology who have contributed to critical social theory and social construction of selfhood and identity examine the relations between political structures and economic circumstances on the one hand, and motivations, emotions and meanings on the other.

This volume, first published in 2001, represents an emerging synthesis in psychological anthropology, outlining a research agenda as the discipline moves beyond postmodernist critique. United by a common interest in how culture shapes experience, the individual chapters cover contemporary approaches in the field, including person-centred ethnography, activity theory, and cultural schema theory.

Using the Christian conversion narrative as a primary example, this book examines how people deal with emotional conflict through language.

This work on psychological anthropology discusses cognition, developmental psychology, biology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis, areas that have always been integral to the subject, but which are now being transformed by new perspectives on the body, meaning, agency and communicative practice.

Why do people do what they do? The authors attempt to show how shared cultural knowledge comes to motivate, or fail to motivate, individuals.

Why do people do what they do? The authors attempt to show how shared cultural knowledge comes to motivate, or fail to motivate, individuals.

This volume, first published in 2001, represents an emerging synthesis in psychological anthropology, outlining a research agenda as the discipline moves beyond postmodernist critique. United by a common interest in how culture shapes experience, the individual chapters cover contemporary approaches in the field, including person-centred ethnography, activity theory, and cultural schema theory.

Collective violence changes perpetrators, victims, and societies, targetting body, psyche, and socio-cultural order. This collection by anthropologists, psychologists and psychoanalysts, draws on research in many different parts of the world, providing insights into the darker side of humanity, and proposing new ways of understanding the horrors people are capable of.

Looks at how the Japanese see themselves and others, and challenges many Western assumptions about Japanese society.

Anthropologists must draw on psychological theories of cognition in order to understand how culture is learnt, and shapes everyday actions and decision. The authors offer an approach, based on psychological theories of cultural meaning, illustrating it with original research on understandings of marriage, and success, in the United States.

Latah, the Malayan hyperstartle pattern, has fascinated Western observers since the late nineteenth century, and is widely considered a 'culture-bound syndrome'. This study critically reviews the literature, and presents new ethnographic information, concluding that latah serves specific social functions, and should not be treated as an 'illness' or 'syndrome'.

Seventeen distinguished contributors - from cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, archaeology, and anthropological linguistics - have produced a wealth of fascinating data on a unified anthropological approach to the study of sex and gender hierarchies. The interdisciplinary approach successfully contributes to the development of better theory and methodology in anthropology.

John Ingham reviews developments in psychological anthropology and argues for an eclectic approach that finds room for pyschoanalytic, dialogical and social perspectives on personality and culture.