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Author Jordan, David K.

Title Personality and the Cultural Construction of Society.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 1990.

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Description 1 online resource (416 pages)
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Contents Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: NONTELEOLOGICAL FUNCTIONALISM; 1. Melford Spiro and the Scientific Study of Culture / Kevin Avruch; 2. Natural Objects and Substitutive Acts: The Symbolic Process in the Anthropologies of Durkheim and Freud / Michael E. Meeker; 3. Culturally Constituted Defenses and the Theory of Collective Motivation / Cananath Obeyesekere; 4. Eufunctions, Dysfunctions, and Oracles: Literary Miracle Making in Taiwan / David K. Jordan; 5. Aggressive Speech, Status, and Cultural Distribution among the Swahili of Mombasa / Marc J. Swartz.
PART II: CULTURE AND PERSONALITY, GENDER ROLES, THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX, AND DREAMS6. Culture and Personality: A False Dichotomy / Roy G. D'Andrade; 7. On the "Petticoat Government" of the Eighteenth-Century Cherokee / Raymond D. Fogelson; 8. Male and Female in Four Changing Cultures / George and Louise Spindler; 9. Cloths of Heaven: Freud, Language, and the Negation in Pitjantjatjara Dreams / Aram Yengoyan; 10. From Empathy to Alienati.
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Subject Spiro, Melford E.
Spiro, Melford E.
Spiro, Melford E.
Personality and culture.
Personality and culture.
Ethnopsychology.
Ethnopsychology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Swartz, Marc.
Other Form: Print version: Jordan, David K. Personality and the Cultural Construction of Society. Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, ©1990 9780817356347
ISBN 9780817384081 (electronic book)
0817384081 (electronic book)