On Crafting a Cultural Mind

A Comparative Assessment of Some Recent Theories of `Internalization' in Psychological Anthropology

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ID2394443
AutoresC Jason Throop (0000-0002-2631-5460, University of California, Los Angeles, autor correspondente)
Ano2003
Volume40
Fascículo1
Páginas109-139
Data de publicação2003-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTranscultural Psychiatry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1363-4615 • E-ISSN: 1461-7471
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1363461503040001007
PMID12769514
OpenAlexW2123893184
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas25
Referências citadas30

This article reviews a number of recent publications in psychological anthropology that draw in varying degrees from psychoanalytic premises in order to theoretically address problems concerning the internalization of cultural meaning. The article begins with a discussion and critical comparison of Spiro's and Obeyesekere's perspectives on internalization that are in line with a number of classical formulations in anthropological and psychoanalytic theory, before turning to explore what appears to be an emerging new wave of perspectives in contemporary psychological anthropology that set out to discuss problems of internalization in the context of a complex modeling of psychological, social, and cultural processes. The article concludes with a brief discussion of where researchers may need to turn to further our understanding of `internalization' in relation to those intrapsychic, interpsychic, and extrapsychic processes underpinning the crafting of cultural minds

Cultural anthropology · Epistemology · Internalization · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sociology · Underpinning · Anthropology · Cultural Differences and Values · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Representations and Identity