Culture Theory: Essays on Mind, Self and Emotion

Major figures in American anthropology, psychology, linguistics, and philosophy have contributed to this study of the relationship between everyday experience and culture. The volume focuses on the role of symbols and meaning in the development of mind, self, and emotion, examining such questions as how culture interacts with cognition and social and emotional growth, and how concepts and meanings are historically transmitted. It also tackles the methodological and conceptual problems involved in the study of meaning and reexamines the problem of 'relativism'.Culture Theory: Essays on Mind, Self and Emotion, was published 1984 under ISBN 9780521267199 and ISBN 0521267196.