Culture and Human Nature: Theoretical Papers - Hardcover

Spiro, Melford E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226769933 ISBN 13: 9780226769936

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1987

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Book by Spiro Melford E

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One of the most prominent figures in psychoanalytic and psychological anthropology, Melford E. Spiro has produced an oeuvre of broad theoretical and ethnographic scope. One of the few anthropologists who are also trained in psychoanalysis, he has made the study of culture and personality a distinctive theoretical approach to anthropological work and has been a consistent and forceful critic of such popular intellectual movements as structuralism, hermeneutics, cultural determinism, and symbolic anthropology.

This volume of Spiro's major theoretical writings concentrates on theories of culture and human nature, functional analysis, and religion. Spiro argues that important dimensions of the human family are the same everywhere and that a theory of human nature is both possible and necessary. He discusses religious beliefs, analyzing not only their structures but also the ways such beliefs are held and the meanings attributed to them. This analysis, Spiro shows, can be done most successfully by means of a theory of the human family, of infant and child development and socialization, of panhuman unconscious processes, and of universal psychodynamic constellations such as the Oedipus complex.

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• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0226769933
• ISBN 13: 9780226769936
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 328
• Herausgeber: Kilborne Benjamin, Langness L.L.