Cross-Cultural Dimensions in Conscious Thought

Narrative Themes in Comparative Context

George A De Vos editor Eric S De Vos editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield

Published:12th Mar '04

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Cross-Cultural Dimensions in Conscious Thought represents a major contribution, describing an empirically-validated method for analyzing the thematic content of narratives as a tool for comparative research in Anthropology, Cultural Psychology and Ethnopsychiatry. This second volume in the two volume series presents research conducted in Ireland, Kenya, Japan, the Philippines, Canada, the United States, India, Brazil and Venezuela. This research illustrates, for the cross-cultural researcher, the usefulness of projective techniques as a means for eliciting culturally relevant information from informants. It also exemplifies how the analysis of narrative themes, when it is related to other material obtained in field settings, can reveal meaningful within-group and between-group differences in human experience, and can help us make sense of conscious human experience across a wide range of sociocultural contexts.

George DeVos is the premier anthropological expert on projective testing. This two volume study, which includes his new coding system for scoring the TAT, is indispensable for any anthropologist or psychologist interested in the relevance of the TAT for understanding the interaction between personality dynamics and social and cultural systems. -- Melford E. Spiro, UC-San Diego

ISBN: 9780742526747

Dimensions: 233mm x 164mm x 37mm

Weight: 862g

576 pages