Personality and the Cultural Construction of Society

by David K. Jordan and Marc J. Swartz

Pyschological anthropology is a vital area of contemporary social science, and one of the field's most important and innovative thinkers is Melford E. Spiro. This volume brings together sixteen essays that review Spiro's theoretical insights and extend them into new areas. The essays center on several general problems: In what ways is it meaningful to speak of a social act as having "functions"? What elements and processes of human personality are...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817356347
• ISBN13: 9780817356347
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"