Steven Piker
Biographic Data
| ID | 84903 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Piker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Piker |
| SIGNATURE | PIKER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swarthmore College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Contributions of Psychological Anthropology
Psychological anthropology and cross-cultural psychology are partners in pursuit of an empirically grounded understanding of human psychology in variable cultural contexts. This article summarizes some of the main contributions of psychological anthropology to this joint endeavor. It adopts a broadly intellectual and historical approach. For psychological anthropology, the early work of Freud was critical. Before World War II, anthropologists ada…
Theravada Buddhism and Catholicism: A social historical perspective on religious change, with special reference toCentesimus Annus
A Peasant Community in Changing Thailand
An Anthropology of Curing in Multiethnic Thailand
The Buddhist Saints of the Forest and the Cult of Amulets: A Study in Charisma, Hagiography, Sectarianism, and Millennial Buddhism. Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah
The anthropological study of Theravada Buddhism
Richard F. Gombrich. Precept and Practice: Traditional Buddhism in the Rural Highlands of Ceylon. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. viii + 366 pp. Appendixes, glossary, bibliography, and index. £4.00 (U.K.). E. Michael Mendelson. Sangha and State in Burma: A Study of Monastic Sectarianism and Leadership. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1975. 389 pp. Appendixes, bibliography, and index. $19.50. Melford E. Spiro. Buddhism and Society: A G…
Buddhism in Sinhalese Society, 1750-1900: A Study of Religious Revival and Change
Films on Southeast Asia: Floating Rice
Comments on the Integration of Thai Religion
The Problem of Consistency in Thai Religion
It is argued that mutually inconsistent religious beliefs do not necessarily produce cognitive conflict in their adherents. Examples gathered from research undertaken in Thailand are presented showing that there are various ways people use to cope with a logical contradiction between one master religious principle to which they subscribe and certain other specific beliefs and practices to which they also subscribe. It is suggested that for Thai B…
Buddhism and the Spirit Cults in North‐East Thailand S. J. Tambiah
The Relationship of Belief Systems to Behavior in Rural Thai Society
Research Article| May 01 1968 The Relationship of Belief Systems to Behavior in Rural Thai Society Steven Piker Steven Piker Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1939) 8 (5): 384–399. https://doi.org/10.2307/2642320 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite S…
Sources of Stability and Instability in Rural Thai Society
Ongoing cultures, by virtue of the personalities they produce and the social arrangements they embody, create tensions or strains for their individual members; and they provide as well for the institutionalized expression and alleviation, if not complete reduction, of these tensions in culturally approved channels. In this view, cultural stability refers not to the absence of persisting conflict on the individual or social level; but rather to a …
Friendship to the Death in Rural Thai Society
With reference to a growing literature on interpersonal relations in peasant societies, Foster has asserted that peasants typically exhibit the following characteristics: distrust of the intentions of others; noncooperativeness; inability or unwillingness to seek interpersonal involvement; and friendlessness. He notes in addition the widespread occurrence of what might be termed a deus ex machina complex: a heavy reliance on patron-client relatio…
Thai Students in the United States: A Study in Attitude Change. Jean Barry
General and Ethnology: Fishermen of South Thailand: The Malay Villagers. Thomas M. Fraser, Jr
The Image of Limited Good: Comments on an Exercise in Description and Interpretation
Thai peasants exhibit most of the behavioral characteristics that George Foster describes for peasants generally. But the Thai peasant's society is open, and there are things he values as important “goods” that he perceives as unlimited. Such observations make unclear to whom Foster's model of the Limited Good is to apply, and open to question the psychological premises on which his interpretation rests
Buddhism in Sinhalese Society, 1750-1900: A Study of Religious Revival and Change
The Image of Limited Good: Comments on an Exercise in Description and Interpretation
Thai peasants exhibit most of the behavioral characteristics that George Foster describes for peasants generally. But the Thai peasant's society is open, and there are things he values as important “goods” that he perceives as unlimited. Such observations make unclear to whom Foster's model of the Limited Good is to apply, and open to question the psychological premises on which his interpretation rests
The Relationship of Belief Systems to Behavior in Rural Thai Society
Research Article| May 01 1968 The Relationship of Belief Systems to Behavior in Rural Thai Society Steven Piker Steven Piker Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1939) 8 (5): 384–399. https://doi.org/10.2307/2642320 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite S…
Friendship to the Death in Rural Thai Society
With reference to a growing literature on interpersonal relations in peasant societies, Foster has asserted that peasants typically exhibit the following characteristics: distrust of the intentions of others; noncooperativeness; inability or unwillingness to seek interpersonal involvement; and friendlessness. He notes in addition the widespread occurrence of what might be termed a deus ex machina complex: a heavy reliance on patron-client relatio…
Sources of Stability and Instability in Rural Thai Society
Ongoing cultures, by virtue of the personalities they produce and the social arrangements they embody, create tensions or strains for their individual members; and they provide as well for the institutionalized expression and alleviation, if not complete reduction, of these tensions in culturally approved channels. In this view, cultural stability refers not to the absence of persisting conflict on the individual or social level; but rather to a …
Contributions of Psychological Anthropology
Psychological anthropology and cross-cultural psychology are partners in pursuit of an empirically grounded understanding of human psychology in variable cultural contexts. This article summarizes some of the main contributions of psychological anthropology to this joint endeavor. It adopts a broadly intellectual and historical approach. For psychological anthropology, the early work of Freud was critical. Before World War II, anthropologists ada…
A Peasant Community in Changing Thailand
The Image of Limited Good: Comments on an Exercise in Description and Interpretation
Thai peasants exhibit most of the behavioral characteristics that George Foster describes for peasants generally. But the Thai peasant's society is open, and there are things he values as important “goods” that he perceives as unlimited. Such observations make unclear to whom Foster's model of the Limited Good is to apply, and open to question the psychological premises on which his interpretation rests
General and Ethnology: Fishermen of South Thailand: The Malay Villagers. Thomas M. Fraser, Jr
The Relationship of Belief Systems to Behavior in Rural Thai Society
Research Article| May 01 1968 The Relationship of Belief Systems to Behavior in Rural Thai Society Steven Piker Steven Piker Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1939) 8 (5): 384–399. https://doi.org/10.2307/2642320 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite S…
Sources of Stability and Instability in Rural Thai Society
Ongoing cultures, by virtue of the personalities they produce and the social arrangements they embody, create tensions or strains for their individual members; and they provide as well for the institutionalized expression and alleviation, if not complete reduction, of these tensions in culturally approved channels. In this view, cultural stability refers not to the absence of persisting conflict on the individual or social level; but rather to a …
Friendship to the Death in Rural Thai Society
With reference to a growing literature on interpersonal relations in peasant societies, Foster has asserted that peasants typically exhibit the following characteristics: distrust of the intentions of others; noncooperativeness; inability or unwillingness to seek interpersonal involvement; and friendlessness. He notes in addition the widespread occurrence of what might be termed a deus ex machina complex: a heavy reliance on patron-client relatio…
Thai Students in the United States: A Study in Attitude Change. Jean Barry
Buddhism and the Spirit Cults in North‐East Thailand S. J. Tambiah
The Problem of Consistency in Thai Religion
It is argued that mutually inconsistent religious beliefs do not necessarily produce cognitive conflict in their adherents. Examples gathered from research undertaken in Thailand are presented showing that there are various ways people use to cope with a logical contradiction between one master religious principle to which they subscribe and certain other specific beliefs and practices to which they also subscribe. It is suggested that for Thai B…
Comments on the Integration of Thai Religion
Films on Southeast Asia: Floating Rice
The anthropological study of Theravada Buddhism
Richard F. Gombrich. Precept and Practice: Traditional Buddhism in the Rural Highlands of Ceylon. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. viii + 366 pp. Appendixes, glossary, bibliography, and index. £4.00 (U.K.). E. Michael Mendelson. Sangha and State in Burma: A Study of Monastic Sectarianism and Leadership. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1975. 389 pp. Appendixes, bibliography, and index. $19.50. Melford E. Spiro. Buddhism and Society: A G…
Buddhism in Sinhalese Society, 1750-1900: A Study of Religious Revival and Change
A Peasant Community in Changing Thailand
An Anthropology of Curing in Multiethnic Thailand
The Buddhist Saints of the Forest and the Cult of Amulets: A Study in Charisma, Hagiography, Sectarianism, and Millennial Buddhism. Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah
Theravada Buddhism and Catholicism: A social historical perspective on religious change, with special reference toCentesimus Annus
Contributions of Psychological Anthropology
Psychological anthropology and cross-cultural psychology are partners in pursuit of an empirically grounded understanding of human psychology in variable cultural contexts. This article summarizes some of the main contributions of psychological anthropology to this joint endeavor. It adopts a broadly intellectual and historical approach. For psychological anthropology, the early work of Freud was critical. Before World War II, anthropologists ada…
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