1st Edition

The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 15 Essays in Honor of Melford E. Spiro

Edited By L. Bryce Boyer, Simon A. Grolnick Copyright 1990
416 Pages
by Routledge

412 Pages
by Routledge

412 Pages
by Routledge

Volume 15 features Melford Spiro's "Culture and Human Nature" and "The internalization of Burmese Gender Identity" along with an interview of Spiro by B. Kilbourne and S. Bolle. Additional topics include children's fantasy life in Papua New Guinea (F. Poole); a psychoanthropological approach to Kagwahiv food taboos (W. Kracke); an ethnological and Rorschach study of three groups of Australian... Read more

1. Mere Worldlings: An Interview with Melford A. Spiro, Kilborne, Bolle  2. Culture and Human Nature, Spiro  3. The Internationalization of Burmese Gender Identity, Spiro  4. Of the Resemblance of Fathers to Their Children: The Roots of Primitivism in Middle-Childhood Enculturation, Tuzin  5. Images of an Unborn Sibling: The Psychocultural Shaping of a Child's Fantasy among the Bimin-Kuskusmin of Papua New Guinea, Poole  6. Dream Drawings, Affect, and Cultural Themes: Pointers from Some Tolai Data, Epstein  7. Don't Let the Piranha Bite Your Liver: A Combined Anthropological and Psychoanalytic Approach to Kagwahiv (Tupi) Food Taboos, Kracke  8. Jewish Moroccan "Saint Impressarious" in Israel: A Stage-Developmental Perspective, Bilu  9. An Ethnological and Rorschach Study of Three Groups of Australian Aborigines: The Yolgnu, the Pitjatjatjara, and the "Dark People" of Bourke, Boyer, Dithrich, Harned, Hippler, Stone, Walt, Boyer  10. Bettelheim's Contribution to Anthropology, Paul  11. Trickster's Humanity: Sublimation and Psychosocial Development, Manson  12. Jewish Messianism and the Culture Process, Meissner

Biography

L. Bryce Boyer, Simon A. Grolnick