In this first edition text, Lindolm introduces students to the field of psychological anthropology, tracing the growth of the field, interweaving perspectives from anthropology, psychology, and sociology, and applying the insights gained to an understanding of daily life in America. Unlike other texts, Culture and the Self is a coherent essay that deals with questions that are important to the field, includes the study of important theorists previously ignored, and covers contemporary topics such as object relations, identity, emotions, cognition, symbolic systems, idealized relationships, and the psychology of groups.
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"This is a thorough, meaningful and grounded introduction to our discipline. It will certainly be required reading in my courses." -- Jill White, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Anthropology, University of Winsconsin. ETHOS: Journal of the Society for Pychological Anthropology
"An important intellectual synthesis and a superb teaching text." -- Steven Parish - Professor of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego
Culture and Identity is the most lucid and up to date introduction to psychological anthropology available and provides an indispensible bridge between anthropology and psychology. -- Robert A. Levine - Professor Emeritus of Education and Human Development and Professor Emeritus of Anthropology Harvard University. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
"An important intellectual synthesis and a superb teaching text." -- Steven Parish - Professor of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego
Culture and Identity is the most lucid and up to date introduction to psychological anthropology available and provides an indispensible bridge between anthropology and psychology. -- Robert A. Levine - Professor Emeritus of Education and Human Development and Professor Emeritus of Anthropology Harvard University. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Charles Lindholm is Professor in the University Professors Program and in the Department of Anthropology. He graduated from Columbia in 1979. Prior to coming to Boston in 1990 he taught at Columbia, Barnard and Harvard, where he held a joint appointment in Anthropology and in Social Studies. His publications include Generosity and Jealousy: The Swat Pukhtun of Northern Pakistan (based on his dissertation) and a collection entitled Frontier Perspectives: Essays in Comparative Anthropology. His other books are Charisma and the recently published The Islamic Middle East An Historical Anthropology. He has also written a number of essays on topics such as romantic love in cross-cultural perspective, the social construction of emotion, the quandaries of egalitarianism, and the character of American society. Professor Lindholm is presently working on a survey of psychological anthropology and on a study of the history of Middle Eastern ethnography; he is also continuing his long-term research on idealization and culture and on the relationship of philosophy to anthropology. He teaches courses related to his psychological and philosophical interests, as well as courses on the ethnography of Middle East and the United States.
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A Great Survey of Psychological Anthropology,
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This review is from: Culture and Identity: The History, Theory, and Practice of Psychological Anthropology (Paperback)
This is a slightly peculiar book, and brilliant for that very reason. What Charles Lindholm has done is put together a work with all of the tight, careful organization and encyclopedic coverage of a well-written introductory text, and done so without sacrificing a personable and well-voiced narrative. The topics and perspectives presented are fascinating, broad, and synthesized so well in the text that I'm consistently surprised at finding little tidbits of insight in it even after having read more broadly into its subject matter. In other words, it manages to be both a textbook and an individual treatment of the subject all at once. A great reference!
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