Personalities and cultures : readings in psychological anthropology

Summary: This is a compilation of the classic ethnographic work on personality and culture by some of the pioneers in the field, as well as the most significant recent work. Beginning with an exposition of Freud's psychoanalytic theory of personality, this volume goes on, in the remaining articles, to define personality's role in shaping culture. Intelligence, abnormality, acculturation, and Oedipal problems are some of the special concers of psychological anthropology which are covered in this book. -- from back cover.

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ISBN: 0292764294
ISBN: 9780292764293
Physical Description: print
xxi, 434 pages ; 22 cm.
Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 1979, c1967.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Reprint of the ed. published for the American Museum of Natural History by the Natural History Press, Garden City, N.Y., issued in series: American Museum sourcebooks in anthropology. Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Bibliography: p. [400]-420.
Formatted Contents Note:	Freud's psychoanalytic theory of personality / Calvin S. Hall and Gardner Lindzey -- World view and self-view of the Kaska Indians / John Honigmann -- Intelligence of northeastern Indians / A. Irving Hallowell -- Male and female adaptations in culture change : Menomini / Louise and George Spindler -- The psychosocial analysis of a Hopi life-history / David Friend Aberle -- The balance of threat and security in Mesoamerica : San Carlos / John Gillin -- Mental disorder and self-regulating processes in culture : a Guatemalan illustration / Benjamin D. Paul -- Some cultural determinants of hostility in Pilaga Indian children / Jules Henry -- The internalization of political values in stateless societies / Robert A. Levine -- Sex ethos and the Iatmul Naven ceremony / Gregory Bateson -- An investigation of the thought of primitive children, with special reference to animism / Margaret Mead -- Ifaluk ghosts : an anthropological inquiry into learning and perception / Melford E. Spiro -- Psychological warfare and the Japanese emperor / Alexander Leighton and Morris Opler -- The relation of guilt toward parents to achievement and arranged marriage among the Japanese / George de Vos -- Family system and the economy : China / Francis L. K. Hsu -- Modal personality and adjustment to the Soviet socio-political system / Alex Inkeles, Eugenia Hanfmann, and Helen Beier -- Child rearing in eastern European countries / Ruth Benedict -- Is the Oedipus complex universal? : a south Italian "nuclear complex" / Anne Parsons.