The Cultural Transition : Human Experience and Social Transformation in the Third World and Japan (Paperback)

Part 1: Psychologies of the Person and Cultural Context for Personal Change 1. Psychotherapy and culture: healing in the Indian tradition  Sudhir Kakar  2. Source and Influence: A Comparative Approach to African Religion and Culture  Lamin Sanneh  3. Healing and Transformation: Perspectives on Development, Education and Community Richard Katz  4. Social Change and Personal Crisis: A View from an Indian Practice  B. K. Ramanujam  Part 2: Social Organization and Environments for Learning  5. The Making of a Fqih: the Transformation of Traditional Islamic Teachers in Modern Cultural Adaptation  Jennifer E. Spratt and Daniel A. Wagner  6. Cultural Continuity in an Educational Institution: A Case Study of the Suzuki Method of Music Instruction  Lois Taniuchi  7. Learning Elementary School Mathematics as a Culturally Conditioned Process  Carlos E. Vasco  Part 3: Cultural Perspectives on the Life Course  8. The Work of Mourning: Death in a Punjabi Family  Veena Das  9. "Heart" and Self in Old Age: a Chinese Model"  Julia Shiang 10. Skills and Life Strategies of Japanese Business Women Sumiko Iwao 11. Selfhood in Context: Some Indian Solutions  Prakash Desai and Alfred Collins