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Culture and Personality brings together some of the best culture and personalitystudies from the 1960s and 1970s. It offers illuminating views of a field thatis interdisciplinary in nature within the social and behavioral sciences, definedprimarily by its attention to behavioral differences between populations, thedevelopment in the individual of psychological dispositions accounting forsuch... Read more
Introduction, I. PSYCHOSOCIAL UNIVERSALS 1. Universal Facial Expressions of Emotion 2. Sex Differences and Cultural Institution 3. Biologic Considerations of Parenthood,4. Phases of the Development of Infant-Mother 5. Mourning and Adaptation, 6. The Country of Old Men: Cross-Cultural Studies in the Psychology of Later Life II. CULTURAL VARIATIONS IN THE LIFE CYCLE 7. Who Sleeps by Whom? Parent-Child Involvement in Urban Japanese Families 8. The Leaming of Values 9. A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Sex Differences in the Behavior of Children Aged Three Through Eleven 10. Pregnancy Cravings (Dola-Duka) in Relation to Social Structure and Personality in a Sinhalese Village 11. Repeated Hallucinatory Experiences as a Part of the Mourning Process among Hopi Indian Women 12. Alternatives to Disengagement: The Old Men of the Highland Druze III. CULTURAL INFLUENCE IN INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE: EMIC VIEWS OF NORMAL AND ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR 13. The Vocabulary of Emotion: A Study of Javanese Socialization Process 14. Hopi Dreams in Cultural Perspective 15. Tahiti, Sin, and the Question of Integration between Personality and Sociocultural Systems 16. Amae: A Key Concept for Understanding Japanese Personality Structure 17. Expressive Symbolism in Witchcraft and Delusion: A Comparative Study IV. ECOLOGY AND PERSONALITY 18. Household Density and Infant Care in an East African Society 19. Pastoral-Farming Comparisons V. MOTIVES IN SOCIAL PERFORMANCE: THE INFLUENCE OF PERSONALITY ON INSTITUTIONAL PROCESS 20. Childhood Association and Sexual Attraction: A Further Test of the Westermarck Hypothesis 21. Spirit Possession among the Zulu 22. The Ox and Nuer Sacrifice: Some Freudian Hypotheses about Nuer Symbolism 23. Law and Personality: Signposts for a New Direction, Index
Biography
LeVine, Robert A.
