1st Edition
The Cultural Transition Human Experience and Social Transformation in the Third World and Japan
Part 1: Psychologies of the Person and Cultural Context for Personal Change 1. Psychotherapy and culture: healing in the Indian tradition Sudhir Kakar 2. Source and Influence: A Comparative Approach to African Religion and Culture Lamin Sanneh 3. Healing and Transformation: Perspectives on Development, Education and Community Richard Katz 4. Social Change and Personal Crisis: A View from an Indian Practice B. K. Ramanujam Part 2: Social Organization and Environments for Learning 5. The Making of a Fqih: the Transformation of Traditional Islamic Teachers in Modern Cultural Adaptation Jennifer E. Spratt and Daniel A. Wagner 6. Cultural Continuity in an Educational Institution: A Case Study of the Suzuki Method of Music Instruction Lois Taniuchi 7. Learning Elementary School Mathematics as a Culturally Conditioned Process Carlos E. Vasco Part 3: Cultural Perspectives on the Life Course 8. The Work of Mourning: Death in a Punjabi Family Veena Das 9. "Heart" and Self in Old Age: a Chinese Model" Julia Shiang 10. Skills and Life Strategies of Japanese Business Women Sumiko Iwao 11. Selfhood in Context: Some Indian Solutions Prakash Desai and Alfred Collins
Biography
Merry I White, Susan Pollak
