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Thinking Through Cultures: Expeditions in Cultural Psychology Paperback – March 1, 1991

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A discipline is emerging called cultural psychology; it will serve as a force of renewal for both anthropology and psychology. In this book Richard Shweder presents its manifesto. Its central theme is that we have to understand the way persons, cultures, and natures make each other up. Its goal is to seek the mind indissociably embedded in the meanings and resonances that are both its product and its components.

Over the past thirty years the person as a category has disappeared from ethnography. Shweder aims to reverse this trend, focusing on the search for meaning and the creation of intentional worlds. He examines the prospect for a reconciliation of rationality and relativism and defines an intellectual agenda for cultural psychology.

What Shweder calls for is an exploration of the human mind, and of one’s own mind, by thinking through the ideas and practices of other peoples and their cultures. He examines evidence of cross-cultural similarities and differences in mind, self, emotion, and morality with special reference to the cultural psychology of a traditional Hindu temple town in India, where he has done considerable work in comparative anthropology. And he critiques the concept of the “person” implicit in Western social science, as well as psychiatric theories of the “subject.” He maintains that it will come as no surprise to cultural psychology if it should turn out that there are different psychological generalizations or “nomological networks”―a Hindu psychology, a Protestant psychology―appropriate for the different semiotic regions of the world. Shweder brings the news that God is alive not dead, but that there are many gods.

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  6. ISBN-10
    0674884167
  7. ISBN-13
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“This welcome book opens new and challenging problems about the inseparability of mind and culture.”―Jerome Bruner

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Richard A. Shweder, a cultural anthropologist, is the William Claude Reavis Professor of Human Development, University of Chicago.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvard University Press; First Edition (March 1, 1991)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 420 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0674884167
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0674884168
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.35 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.04 x 9.25 inches
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Richard Shweder's teaching skills.
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    When I read Nicholas' one star's comment, I felt the impression that I had something to say for potential readers. Whatever the book, the conference, or the article, Richard Shweder's compelling reflections provoke disruptive reactions. His way of writing involves us in a mirror process. After discovering his cultural analysis you always feel an "in between". It forces you to slow your analysis of the world. I would say, his Stories and theories often take you to an intercultural and dynamic intrapsychic movement. Thinking though cultures is a classic to me. I feel so thankful for what Richard Shweder allows me to understand through books, that I had to write this comment (in order to improve the global evaluation). Therefore, it is unforgivable, that this none of his books are translated into french.
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