The Oxford Handbook Of Culture And Psychology

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Edited by Valsiner Jaan

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Now in paperback, The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology is an internationally representative overview of the state of the art in cultural psychology.

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The goal of cultural psychology is to explain the ways in which human cultural constructions — for example, rituals, stereotypes, and meanings — organize and direct human acting, feeling, and thinking in different social contexts. A rapidly growing, international field of scholarship, cultural psychology is ready for an interdisciplinary, primary resource. Linking psychology, anthropology, sociology, archaeology, and history, The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology is the quintessential volume that unites the variable perspectives from these disciplines. Comprised of over fifty contributed chapters, this book provides a necessary, comprehensive overview of contemporary cultural psychology. Bridging psychological, sociological, and anthropological perspectives, one will find in this handbook:- A concise history of psychology that includes valuable resources for innovation in psychology in general and cultural psychology in particular – Interdisciplinary chapters including insights into cultural anthropology, cross-cultural psychology, culture and conceptions of the self, and semiotics and cultural connections – Close, conceptual links with contemporary biological sciences, especially developmental biology, and with other social sciences- A section detailing potential methodological innovations for cultural psychologyBy comparing cultures and the (often differing) human psychological functions occuring within them, The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology is the ideal resource for making sense of complex and varied human phenomena.

Table of contents:
Part One: Historical Linkages of Culture and Psychology ; Introduction: Culture in Psychology: A Renewed Encounter of Inquisitive Minds ; Jaan Valsiner ; 1. Culture and Psychology: Words and Ideas in History ; Gustav Jahoda ; 2. Volkerpsychologie ; Rainer Diriwachter ; 3. Cultural-historical Psychology: Contributions of Lev Vygotsky ; Rene van der Veer ; Part Two: Inter- and Intra-disciplinary Perspectives ; 4. The Role of Indigenous Psychologies in the Building of Basic Cultural Psychology ; Pradeep Chakkarath ; 5. Cultural Anthropology ; Susan Rasmussen ; 6. Cross-cultural Psychology: Taking People, Contexts, and Situations Seriously ; Heidi Keller ; 7. Archaeology and the Study of Material Culture: Synergies with Cultural Psychology ; Alfredo Gonzalez-Ruibal ; Part Three: Positions in the Field ; 8. Enactivism ; Cor Baerveldt and Theo Verhaggen ; 9. Positioning Theory: Moral Dimensions of Social-cultural Psychology ; Rom Harre ; 10. Macro-cultural Psychology ; Carl Ratner ; Part Four: Semiosis in Culture and Psychology ; 11. Social Life of the Sign: Sensemaking in Society ; Sergio Salvatore ; 12. Meaningful Connections: Semiotics, Cultural Psychology, and the Forms of Sense ; Robert Innis ; 13. The City as a Sign: A Developmental-Experiential Approach to Spatial Life ; Nikita A. Kharlamov ; 14. Modeling Iconic Literacy: The Dynamic Models for Complex Cultural Objects ; Rebeca Puche-Navarro ; 15. Existential Semiotics and Cultural Psychology ; Eero Tarasti ; Part Five: Action, Self, and Narration ; 16. Culture: Result and Condition of Action ; Ernest Boesch ; 17. Culture Inclusive Action Theory: Action Theory in Dialectics and Dialectics in Action Theory ; Lutz Eckensberger ; 18. The Other in the Self: A Triadic Unit ; Livia Mathias Simao ; 19. Dialogical Theory of Selfhood ; Tiago Bento, Carla Cunha, and Joao Salgado ; 20. Narrative Scenarios: Toward a Culturally Thick Notion of Narrative ; Jens Brockmeier ; 21. Culture in Action: A Discursive Approach ; Kyoko Murakami ; 22. Social Representations as Anthropology of Culture ; Ivana Markova ; Part Six: Tools for Living: Transcending Social