Cultural Psychology
Essays on Comparative Human Development

Table of Contents

Preface
Cultural psychology - what is it? Richard A. Shweder
Part I. The Keynote Addresses:
1. On the strange and the familiar in recent anthropological thought Melford E. Spiro
Part II. Cultural Cognition:
2. Some propositions about the relations between culture and human cognition Roy D'Andrade
3. Culture and moral development Richard A. Shweder, Manamohan Mahapatra and Joan G. Miller
4. The laws of sympathetic magic: a psychological analysis of similarity and contagion Paul Rozin and Carol Nemeroff
5. The development from child speaker to naive speaker Dan I. Slobin
Part II. Cultural Learning:
6. The socialization of cognition: what's involved? Jacqueline J. Goodnow
7. Indexicality and socialization Elinor Ochs
8. The culture of acquisition and the practice of understanding Jean Lave
9. Mathematics learning in Japanese, Chinese, and American classrooms James W. Stigler and Michelle Perry
Part IV. Cultural Selves:
10. Adolescent rituals and identity conflicts John W. M. Whiting
11. Sambia nosebleeding rites and male proximity to women Gilbert Herdt
12. On self characterization Vincent Crapanzano
Part V. Cultural Conceptions of Psychoanalysis:
13. Stories from Indian psychoanalysis: context and text Sudhir Kakar
14. The cultural assumptions of psychoanalysis Takeo Doi
15. Infant environments in psychoanalysis: a cross-cultural view Robert A. LeVine
Part VI. Cultural Domination and Dominions:
16. Male dominance and sexual coercion Thomas Gregor
17. The children of Trackton's children: spoken and written language in social change Shirley Brice Heath
18. Cultural mode, identity, and literacy John U. Ogbu
19. Mother love and child death in northeast Brazil Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Part VII. A Skeptical Reflection:
20. Social understanding and the inscription of self Kenneth J. Gergen
Name index
Subject index.

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