The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology

The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology will challenge readers to understand the complexity and variety of human cultural psychology. Libraries and individual scholars, such as academic psychologists and social scientists interested in cultural phenomena, will want it on their shelves as a reference source.

Auteur
Jaan Valsiner, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology, Clark University, and founding editor of the journal Culture and Psychology.

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The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology is an internationally representative overview of the state of the art in cultural psychology. Cultural psychology focuses on the ways in which our lives are made meaningful through the use of cultural tools and personal meanings.

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Contents Part I. Historical linkages of culture and psychology Introduction: Culture in Psychology: A renewed encounter of inquisitive minds Jaan Valsiner 1. Culture and psychology: words and ideas in history Gustav Jahoda 2. Volkerpsychologie Rainer Diriwachter 3. Cultural-historical psychology: Contributions of Lev Vygotsky Rene van der Veer Part II. Inter- and intra-disciplinary perspectives 4. The role of indigenous psychologies in the building of basic cultural psychology Pradeep Chakkarath 5. Cultural anthropology Susan Rasmussen 6. Cross-cultural psychology: Taking people, contexts and situations seriously Heidi Keller 7. Archaeology and the study of material culture: synergies with cultural psychology Alfredo Gonzalez-Ruibal Part III. Positions in the field 8. Enactivism Cor Baerveldt and Theo Verhaggen 9. Positioning Theory: Moral Dimensions of Social-Cultural Psychology Rom Harre 10. Macro-cultural psychology Carl Ratner Part IV. Semiosis in culture and psychology 11. Social life of the sign: sensemaking in society Sergio Salvatore 12. Meaningful Connections: Semiotics, Cultural Psychology, and the Forms of Sense Robert Innis 13. The City as a Sign: A Developmental-Experiential Approach to Spatial Life Nikita A. Kharlamov 14. Modeling Iconic Literacy: The Dynamic Models for Complex Cultural Objects Rebeca Puche-Navarro 15. Existential semiotics and cultural psychology Eero Tarasti Part V. Action, self, and narration 16. Culture: Result and condition of action Ernest Boesch 17. Culture inclusive action theory: Action theory in dialectics and dialectics in action theory Lutz Eckensberger 18. The Other in the Self: A triadic unit Livia Mathias Simao 19. Dialogical Theory of Selfhood Tiago Bento, Carla Cunha, and Joao Salgado 20. Narrative Scenarios: Toward a Culturally Thick Notion of Narrative Jens Brockmeier 21. Culture in Action: A discursive approach Kyoko Murakami 22. Social Representations as Anthropology of Culture Ivana Markova Part VI. Tools for living: transcending social limitations 23. Life course: A sociocultural perspective Tania Zittoun 24. Being poor: cultural tools for survival Ana Cecilia S. Bastos and Elaine P. Rabinovich 25. Cultural Psychology of Racial Ideology in Historical Perspective: An Analytic Approach to Understanding Racialized Societies and Their Psychological Effects on Lives Cynthia E. Winston and Michael R. Winston 26. Belonging to gender: Social identities, symbolic boundaries and images Ana Flavia do Amaral Madureira 27. Risk and culture Bob Heyman 28. Constructing histories Mario Carretero and Angela Bermudez Part VII. Emergence of culture 29. Roots of culture in the Umwelt Riin Magnus and Kalevi Kull 30. Culture and Epigenesis: A Waddingtonian View Iddo Tavory, Eva Jablonka, and Simona Ginsburg 31. From material to symbolic cultures: Culture in primates Christophe Boesch Part VIII. Human movement through culture 32. Encountering Alterity: Geographic and Semantic Movements Alex Gillespie, Irini Kadianaki, and Ria O'Sullivan-Lago 33. Crossing Thresholds: Movement as a Means of Transformation Zachary Beckstead 34. Never at Home? Migrants between Societies Mariann Martsin and Hala W. Mahmoud Part IX. Culture of higher social regulators: values, magic, and duties 35. Values and sociocultural practices: pathways to moral development Angela Uchoa Branco 36. The inter-generational continuity of values M. Bame Nsamenang 37. The Making of Magic: Cultural constructions of the mundane supernatural Meike Watzlawik, Jaan Valsiner 38. Duties and Rights Fathali M. Moghaddam, Cristina Novoa, and Zachary Warren Part X. Cultural interfaces: persons and institutions 39. The Interface between the Sociology of Practice and the Analysis of Talk in the Study of Change in Educational Settings Harry Daniels 40. The work of schooling Guiseppina Marsico and Antonio Iannacone 41. Helping and Collaborating as Cultural Practices Angelica Lopez, Behnosh Najafi, Barbara Rogoff, and Rebeca Mejia Arauz 42. Design Experimentation and Mutual Appropriation: Two Strategies for Implementing Intervention Research