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Culture Theory:Essays on Mind, Self and Emotion
Culture TheoryEssays on Mind Self and Emotion Author:Richard Shweder, Robert Levine Major figures in American anthropology, psychology, linguistics, and philosophy have contributed to this study of the relationship between everyday experience and culture. The volume focuses on the role of symbols and meaning in the development of mind, self, and emotion, examining such questions as how culture interacts with cognition and socia... more »l and emotional growth, and how concepts and meanings are historically transmitted. It also tackles the methodological and conceptual problems involved in the study of meaning and reexamines the problem of 'relativism'.« less