Cultural Psychology : Essays on Comparative Human Development (Paperback)

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.