Rethinking Psychological Anthropology Continuity and Change in the Study of Human Action

"In this introduction to an important field, Bock provides a critical account of the ways that anthropologists have used and misused psychological concepts in their studies of various societies. He argues that we must be aware of these past efforts and errors if we are to develop culturally sensitive ways of understanding the relationship of individuals to their societies. Starting with nineteenth-century studies of 'primitive mentality,' the book examines the school of culture and personality, including cross-cultural correlational studies, and continuing on to recent work on sociobiology, shamanism, self, and emotion. Relevant psychological concepts are explained as needed, and each approach is presented in its own terms before critical examination. Chapter supplements and a new chapter bring the book completely up to date." -- Waveland Press

Stephen C. Leavitt

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Rethinking Psychological Anthropology: Continuity and Change in the Study of Human Action, Third Edition

(2019)

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"After over three decades of continual publication in multiple editions, the Third Edition of Rethinking Psychological Anthropology, now with coauthor Stephen Leavitt, describes the latest interests, concepts, and approaches in the field with the inclusion of four new chapters and updates to earlier topics. The premise of the previous editions remains: that all anthropology is psychological and that the interplay between anthropological methods and the psychological theories existing in different times is dialectical."

"Psychological anthropologists have grappled with changing trends in both disciplines, including psychoanalytic, holistic, cognitive, interpretive, and developmental approaches. It is important to appreciate these currents of thought to understand the state of the field today. This text is thus a guide to that history along with a critique that may lead to a new synthesis. It is an ideal choice for courses in psychological anthropology, cross-cultural psychology, and the history of anthropology."

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NOTE: When you read this text, read it primarily for a sense of the historical development of Psychological Anthropology / Culture and Personality and for a sense of what the basic concepts are all about.

Rethinking
Psychological Anthropology:
Continuity and Change in the Study of Human Action, Third Edition

by Philip K. Bock and Stephen C. Leavitt

(Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 2019)

ISBN-10: 1478637285
ISBN-13: 978-1478637288

Table of Contents, Third Edition

Prelude: All Anthropology Is Psychological

1. The Psychology of "Primitive" Peoples
Perception, or "Do You See What I See?" / Motivation, or "The Natives Are Restless Tonight" / Cognition, or "Thinking Can Make It So"

2. Psychoanalytic Anthropology
Elements of Psychoanalysis / The Origins of Psychoanalytic Anthropology / Psychoanalysis and Clothing / Summary and Critique

3. Configurations of Culture and Personality
Configurations of Culture / To and from the South Seas / Summary

4. Basic and Modal Personality
Basic Personality Structure (BPS) / The Modal Personality Approach (MP) / Projective Tests: Rorschach and Thematic Apperception / Applications of Projective Tests / Summary

5. National Character Studies
The Yellow Peril / On the Western Front / The Slavic Soul / The Lonely Crowd / And Elsewhere / For Further Consideration

Interlude One: The Crisis in Culture and Personality
The Continuity Assumption / The Uniformity Assumption / The Causal Assumption / The Projective Assumption / The Objectivity Assumption / What's Next?

6. Cross-Cultural Correlations
The Yale Synthesis / Correlations and Customs / Galton's Problem / Male Initiation Rites / Causes of Incest Taboos / Additional Studies

7. The Return of the Repressed
Instinct and Culture / Symbolic Wounds / Insight and Identity / Psychohistory and the Interpretation of Myth / Psychosocial Adaptation / Psychoanalytic Anthropology Redux

8. Social Structure and Personality
Materialist Approaches / Positionalist Approaches / Interactionist Approaches / Studies Relevant to Trauma and Personality

9. Focusing on Behavior
Intensive On-Site Observation / Human Ethology / Attachment, Separation, and Crowding / Feminist Psychological Anthropology / Sociobiology / Concluding Thoughts

10. Cognitive Anthropology
Ethnosemantics / Cognitive Development: Stages, Styles, and Maps / Race, Culture, and Intelligence / Schema Theory and Connectionism / The Question of Motivation / Personal Semantic Networks / Cognitive Analysis of Personal Narrative

11. Shamans, Alternative States, and Schizophrenia
Shamans / Alternative States of Consciousness / Mental Illness and Society / "Schizophrenia" and Mental Illness across Cultures / Difference Approaches to the Treatment of Schizophrenia

12. Emotions and Selfhood
Role, Self, and Identity / Psychology and Cultural Change

Interlude Two: Science versus Interpretation
Ethnopsychology and Ifaluk Emotion / The Defense of Human Nature / The Psychological Power of Emotional Force / Charting New Directions

13. Person-Centered Ethnography
Person-Centered Interviewing / Value of Person-Centered Ethnography / A New Anthropology of Self and Experience / The Anthropology of Narrative / Conclusion

14. About the Body
The Body as a Cultural Construction / Phenomenology and Embodiment / Pain and the Impact of Culture / Narrative and Chronic Illness / Narratives and Social Contexts / Limits of Phenomenology: A Critique

15. The Return of Childhood
Influence of Psychological Theories / Enculturation / Children's Culture
New Research on Attachment / Language in Action / Anthropological Contributions to the Study of Childhood

Postlude: All Psychology Is Cultural

Table of Contents, Second Edition
	Prelude. All Anthropology Is Psychological
1.	The Psychology of Primitive Peoples
2.	Psychoanalytic Anthropology
3.	Configurations of Culture and Personality
4.	Basic and Modal Personality
5.	National Character Studies
	The Culture and Personality Midterm Exam will be in class Week 7 Day 13 Tuesday, 9 October 2018 REM: Bring your Laptop
	Interlude. The Crisis in Culture and Personality
6.	Cross-Cultural Correlations The Yale Synthesis Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) Correlations and Customs Galton's Problem Male Initiation Rites Causes of Incest Taboos Summary Supplement, 1999
7.	The Return of the Repressed
8.	Social Structure and Personality
9.	Focusing on Behavior
10.	Cognitive Anthropology Ethnosemantics Cognitive Development Stages Styles Maps Race, Culture and Intelligence Supplement, 1999
11.	Shamans, Alternative States, and Schizophrenia
12.	Emotions and Selfhood
13.	Some Newer Approaches
	Postlude. All Psychology Is Cultural
	Personal Epilogue, 1999
	The Culture and Personality Final Exam is scheduled for Tuesday, 11 December 2018, 8:00-9:55 in Cina 214 REM: Bring your Laptop
	References
	Index

Daniel Kahneman

"Daniel Kahneman is Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Princeton University and a professor of public affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He received the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his pioneering work with Amos Tversky on decision-making."

"In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.

Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011, Thinking, Fast and Slow is destined to be a classic." -- Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The award-winning best selling, and one of the most important books of our times . . .

Table of Contents
	PREFACE
	PART I. TWO SYSTEMS The characters of the story Attention and effort The lazy controller The associative machine Cognitive ease Norms, surprises, and causes A machine for jumping to conclusions How judgments happen Answering an easier question PART II. HEURISTICS AND BIASES The law of small numbers Anchors The science of availability Availability, emotion, and risk Tom W's specialty Linda: less is more Causes trump statistics Regression to the mean Taming intuitive predictions PART III OVERCONFIDENCE The illusion of understanding The illusion of validity Intuitions vs. formulas Expert intuition: when can we trust it? The outside view The engine of capitalism PART IV. CHOICES Bernoulli's errors Prospect theory The endowment effect Bad events The fourfold pattern Rare events Risk policies Keeping score Reversals Frames and reality PART V. TWO SELVES Two selves Life as a story Experienced well-being Thinking about life CONCLUSIONS APPENDIX A: JUDGEMENT UNDER UNCERTAINTY APPENDIX B: CHOICES, VALUES, AND FRAMES NOTES ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INDEX

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