Ethnic & Race Relations - General, Psychological Anthropology, Cross-Cultural Psychology, Socio-Cultural Anthropology - General & Miscellaneous, Anthropology - General & Miscellaneous, Social Sciences - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
"In Exploring Borders Giuseppe Mantovani highlights and explores the ways in which culture acts as a framework organizing our experience. He emphasizes the differences across and between cultures and examines the depths to which these can go. He also analyses the functions of culture, including: mediation, meaning-making and forming a repertory of values and principles. Finally, he considers some of the challenges raised by taking a cultural perspective and examines how these may be addressed in society." "This highly original and eminently readable narrative will be invaluable to scholars of psychology, media and cultural studies, and to all those fascinated by culture and eager to make the cultural dimension visible to all."--BOOK JACKET.Editorials
Kenneth Gergen
...[W]ritten with a wonderful touch: conceptually sophisticated and yet quite accessible...informative and yet entertaining; and finally, pressing the work of cultural psychology toward issues of pressing concern...would make a marvellous introduction to cultural psychology.Michael Cole
I am pretty familiar with the general theme and many of the materials contained in this book, but I never felt as if I were reading something "over again"...By recontextualizing even familiar materials and by his lucid explanations of the lessons to be learned from taking the cultural dimension of human life seriously, Mantovani makes the entire topic come alive.Book Details
Published
October 12, 2012
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Pages
164
ISBN
9781134567874