1st Edition
Exploring Borders Understanding Culture and Psychology
By Giuseppe Mantovani
Copyright 2000
164 Pages
by
Routledge
164 Pages
by
Routledge
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In Exploring Borders Giuseppe Mantovani highlights and explores the ways in which culture acts as a framework organising our experience. He emphasises 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... Read more
Introduction. Part I. Frames of Experience 1. Birds and Spirits. 2. The Roots of Prejudice. 3. Metaphors and Analogies. Part II. Immeasurable Distances. 4. Different Shipwrecks. 5. Hopes of Happiness. 6. So Near and Yet So Far. Part III. The Web of Culture 7. Sun Counters. 8. Pride and Dignity. 9. The Blind Man's Cane. Part IV. Culture in Education 10. Cultivating Memory. 11. The Sheriff Comes for Virgil. 12. Crossing Borders. Conclusion. Notes. References.
Biography
Giuseppe Mantovani is Professor of Attitudes at the University of Padova, Italy. His Previous publications include New Communication Enviroments (Taylor & Francis).
