Rethinking Psychological Anthropology : Continuity and Change in the Study of Human Action

276 Pages·1988·38.611 MB·English

by  Philip K. Bock

Psychological
Anthropology
A REVISION OF THE
AUTHOR’S CLASSIC
CONTINUITIES IN
PSYCHOLOGICAL
ANTHROPOLOGY

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Rethinking
Psychological
Anthropology
Continuity and Change
in the Study of Human Action
Philip K. Bock
University of New Mexico
W. H. Freeman and Company
New York
Rethinking Psychological Anthropology: Continuity and Change in the Study of Human Action
is a revision of Continuities in Psychological Anthropology
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bock, Philip K.
Rethinking psychological anthropology : continuity and change in the study of human
action / Philip K. Bock,
p. cm.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-7167-1932-0
I. Ethnopsychology. I. Title.
GN270.B63 1988
155.8-dcl9 87-27179
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Copyright © 1980, 1988 by W. H. Freeman and Company
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Contents
Preface xi
prelude
All Anthropology Is Psychological 1
one
The Psychology of Primitive Peoples 5
Perception, or “Do You See What I See?” 7
Motivation, or “The Natives Are Restless Tonight”
Cognition, or “Thinking Can Make It So” 17
Psychoanalytic Anthropology 23
Elements of Psychoanalysis 24
The Origins of Psychoanalytic Anthropology 28
Totemism and Exogamy 32
Psychoanalysis and Clothing 36
Summary and Critique 38
three
Configurations of Culture and Personality
Configurations of Culture 45
To and from the South Seas 53 '
Summary 58
four
Basic and Modal Personality 61
Basic Personality Structure 62
The Modal Personality Approach 67
Projective Tests: Rorschach and
Thematic Apperception 70
Applications of Projective Tests 72
Summary 76
National Character Studies 79
The Yellow Peril 80
On the Western Front 83
The Slavic Soul 84
The Lonely Crowd 88
And Elsewhere 93
Summary 95
interlude
The Crisis in Culture and Personality 97
What Next? 101
six
Cross-Cultural Correlations 105
The Yale Synthesis 105
Correlations and Customs 108