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 psychology
By comparing cultures and the (often differing) human psychological functions occuring
within them, this handbook is the ideal resource for making sense of complex and varied human phenomena.
Contents
Part I. Historical linkages of culture and psychology
Jaan Valsiner: Introduction: Culture in Psychology: A renewed encounter of inquisitive minds
1. Gustav Jahoda: Culture and psychology: words and ideas in history
2. Rainer Diriw,chter: V"lkerpsychologie
3.
Ren. van der Veer: Cultural-historical psychology: Contributions of Lev Vygotsky
Part II. Inter- and intra-disciplinary perspectives
4. Pradeep Chakkarath: The role of indigenous psychologies in the building of basic cultural psychology
5. Susan Rasmussen: Cultural
anthropology
6. Heidi Keller: Cross-cultural psychology: Taking people, contexts and situations seriously
7. Alfredo Gonzalez-Ruibal: Archaeology and the study of material culture: synergies with cultural psychology
Part III. Positions in the field
8. Cor Baerveldt and Theo
Verhaggen: Enactivism
9. Rom Harr: Positioning Theory: Moral Dimensions of Social-Cultural Psychology
10. Carl Ratner: Macro-cultural psychology
Part IV. Semiosis in culture and psychology
11. Sergio Salvatore: Social life of the sign: sensemaking in society
12. Robert
Innis: Meaningful Connections: Semiotics, Cultural Psychology, and the Forms of Sense
13. Nikita A. Kharlamov: The City as a Sign: A Developmental-Experiential Approach to Spatial Life
14. Rebeca Puche-Navarro: Modeling Iconic Literacy: The Dynamic Models for Complex Cultural Objects
15.
Eero Tarasti: Existential semiotics and cultural psychology
Part V. Action, self, and narration
16. Ernest Boesch: Culture: Result and condition of action
17. Lutz Eckensberger: Culture inclusive action theory: Action theory in dialectics and dialectics in action theory
18.
L¡via Mathias SimÙo: The Other in the Self: A triadic unit
19. Tiago Bento, Carla Cunha, and JoÙo Salgado: Dialogical Theory of Selfhood
20. Jens Brockmeier: Narrative Scenarios: Toward a Culturally Thick Notion of Narrative
21. Kyoko Murakami: Culture in Action: A discursive
approach
22. Ivana Markov: Social Representations as Anthropology of Culture
Part VI. Tools for living: transcending social limitations
23. Tania Zittoun: Life course: A sociocultural perspective
24. Ana Cec¡lia S. Bastos and Elaine P. Rabinovich: Being poor: cultural tools
for survival
25. Cynthia E. Winston and Michael R. Winston: Cultural Psychology of Racial Ideology in Historical Perspective: An Analytic Approach to Understanding Racialized Societies and Their Psychological Effects on Lives
26. Ana Fl via do Amaral Madureira: Belonging to gender: Social
identities, symbolic boundaries and images
27. Bob Heyman: Risk and culture
28. Mario Carretero and Angela Bermudez: Constructing histories
Part VII. Emergence of culture
29. Riin Magnus and Kalevi Kull: Roots of culture in the Umwelt
30. Iddo Tavory, Eva Jablonka, and
Simona Ginsburg: Culture and Epigenesis: A Waddingtonian View
31. Christophe Boesch: From material to symbolic cultures: Culture in primates
Part VIII. Human movement through culture
32. Alex Gillespie, Irini Kadianaki, and Ria O'Sullivan-Lago: Encountering Alterity: Geographic
and Semantic Movements
33. Zachary Beckstead: Alex Gillespie, Irini Kadianaki, and Ria O'Sullivan-Lago
34. Mariann M,rtsin and Hala W. Mahmoud: Never at Home? Migrants between Societies
Part IX. Culture of higher social regulators: values, magic, and duties
35. Angela Uchoa
Branco: Values and sociocultural practices: pathways to moral development
36. M. Bame Nsamenang: The inter-generational continuity of values
37. Meike Watzlawik, Jaan Valsiner: The Making of Magic: Cultural constructions of the mundane supernatural
38. Fathali M. Moghaddam, Cristina
Novoa, and Zachary Warren: Duties and Rights
Part X. Cultural interfaces: persons and institutions
39. Harry Daniels: The Interface between the Sociology of Practice and the Analysis of Talk in the Study of Change in Educational Settings
40. Guiseppina Marsico and Antonio
Iannacone: The work of schooling
41. Ang.lica L¢pez, Behnosh Najafi, Barbara Rogoff, and Rebeca Mej¡a Arauz: Helping and Collaborating as Cultural Practices
42. Deborah Downing-Wilson, Robert Lecusay, and Michael Cole: Design Experimentation and Mutual Appropriation: Two Strategies for
Implementing Intervention Research
Part XI. Social networks and cultural affectivity
43. Nandita Chaudhary: Affective networks: The social terrain of a complex culture
44. Li Xiao-wen: Peer relations
45. Bert van Oers: Culture in play
46. Manfred Holodynski and Wolfgang
Friedlmeier: Affect and culture
Part XII. Towards methodological innovations for cultural psychology
47. Emily Abbey: Ambivalence and its transformations
48. Aaro Toomela: Guesses on the future of cultural psychology: Past, present-and-past
49. Brady Wagoner: Culture in
Constructive Remembering
50. Toshiya Yamamoto, Noboru Takahashi, Tatsuya Sato, Takeo Kazuku, Oh Seonah, and Pian Chengnan: How can we study interactions mediated by money as a cultural tool: From the perspectives of "Cultural Psychology of Differences" as a dialogical method
51. Tatsuya
Sato, Mari Fukuda, Tomo Hidaka, Ayae Kido, Miki Nishida, and Mayu Akasaka: The Authentic Culture of Living Well: Pathways to psychological well-being
52. Jaan Valsiner: Psychology Courting Culture: Future directions and their implications
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Jaan Valsiner, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology, Clark University, and founding editor of the journal Culture and Psychology.
