The cultural psyche : the selected papers of Robert A. LeVine on psychosocial science

"As envisaged by Robert A. LeVine many years ago, the human development indicators have improved in many societies as income, healthcare and educational opportunities have been enlarged. Global transformations have led to significant decline in extreme poverty and an increase in working class a...

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Main Author LeVine, Robert A. 1932- (Author)
Other Authors Sharma, Dinesh, 1955- (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2021.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806604234
DOI10.1108/9781648024146
Physical Description1 online resource (400 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Endorsements
  • Preface to the cultural psyche: Selected papers of robert a. Levine on psychosocial science / Byron J. Good. Introduction: Culture and Psyche: The Future of a Hybrid Discipline / Dinesh Sharma
  • Chapter 1. My life in psychological anthropology and future research on its history / Robert A. LeVine
  • Part I. The history of psychological anthropology
  • Chapter 2. Culture and personality studies, 1918-1960: Myth and history / Robert A. LeVine
  • Chapter 3. An anthropology of childhood: Re-examining margaret mead's approach to child development / Robert A. LeVine
  • Chapter 4. Plasticity and variation: Cultural influences on parenting and early child development within and across populations / Robert A. LeVine
  • Chapter 5. Properties of culture: An enthnographic view / Robert A. LeVine
  • Part II. Culture and psyche
  • Chapter 6. Psychoanalysis and other cultures: An African perspective / Robert A. LeVine
  • Chapter 7. Freud and anthropology: Why a freudian anthropology? Robert a. Levine
  • Chapter 8. Theme and variations of freudian anthropology / Robert A. LeVine
  • Chapter 9. Is the oedipus complex universal: Explorations in freudian anthropology / Robert A. LeVine
  • Chapter 10. Freud and the social sciences / Robert A. LeVine
  • Chapter 11. Asian explorers of psyche and culture: Sudhir kakar and his contemporaries / Robert A. LeVine
  • Part III. Personcentered studies of the gusii in Kenya
  • Chapter 12. Outsiders' judgments: An ethnographic approach to group differences in personality / Robert A. LeVine
  • Chapter 13. House design and the self in an African culture / Robert A. LeVine and Sarah E. LeVine
  • Chapter 14. Adulthood among the gusii of Kenya / Robert A. LeVine
  • Chapter 15. Gusii funerals, old and new / Robert A. LeVine and Justus Ogembo
  • Chapter 16. The self in culture / Robert A. LeVine
  • Part IV. Comparative studies of human development
  • Chapter 17. A social science perspective on childhood experience in India / Robert A. LeVine
  • Chapter 18. Child care in India: A comparative developmental view of infant social environments / Dinesh Sharma and Robert A. LeVine
  • Chapter 19. Women's schooling in asia and Africa: New questions and answers / Robert A. LeVine
  • Chapter 20. The semantics and semiotics of attachment / Robert A. LeVine
  • Part V. Conclusion
  • Chapter 21. Literacy, mothering and demographic change: An interview with sarah e. levine and robert a. levine / Dinesh Sharma
  • Chapter 22. Commentary: The cultural psyche: the selected papers of robert a. Levine on psychosocial science / Richard A. Shweder
  • Chapter 23. Commentary: The cultural psyche, or the work of culture in psychology: the selected papers of robert a. Levine on the development of a psychosocial science / Thomas S. Weisner
  • Chapter 24. East Africa, ethnology, and the levine legacy / Parker Shipton
  • Chapter 25. Comments delivered at the centennial of harvard graduate school of education, march 6-7, 2020. Appendix: Bibliography of robert a. Levine.