Culture and Human Nature
Theoretical Papers of Melford E. Spiro
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7098035 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Milton Yinger (corresponding author), Benjamin Kilborne, L L Langne, L L Langness |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 521-521 |
| Publication date | 1988-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2072728 |
| OpenAlex | W2060990190 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 41 |
One of the most prominent figures in psychoanalytic and psychological anthropology, Melford E. Spiro has produced an oeuvre of broad theoretical and ethnographic scope. One of the few anthropologists who are also trained in psychoanalysis, he has made the study of culture and personality a distinctive theoretical approach to anthropological work and has been a consistent and forceful critic of such popular intellectual movements as structuralism, hermeneutics, cultural determinism, and symbolic anthropology. This volume of Spiro's major theoretical writings concentrates on theories of culture and human nature, functional analysis, and religion. Spiro argues that important dimensions of the human family are the same everywhere and that a theory of human nature is both possible and necessary. He discusses religious beliefs, analyzing not only their structures but also the ways such beliefs are held and the meanings attributed to them. This analysis, Spiro shows, can be done most successfully by means of a theory of the human family, of infant and child development and socialization, of panhuman unconscious processes, and of universal psychodynamic constellations such as the Oedipus complex
Determinism · Epistemology · Ethnography · Hermeneutics · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sociology · Structuralism (philosophy of science · Unconscious mind · Anthropology · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Philosophy · Psychology
Stalking A New World Order
Psychological Anthropology
The Roman Empire
U.S and Chinese cultural beliefs about learning.
Religion in Interesting Times
Peering into the Minds of Gods
The Moral Sense
Identity in Nepal
Only connect
Doing Gender in Brazil
The Role and Function of Collective Representations for the Individual During the Mourning Process
Introduction
Conviction without Being Convinced
Is the Western Conception of the Self "Peculiar" within the Context of the World Cultures
Evidence that a simpático self-schema accounts for differences in the self-concepts and social behavior of Latinos versus Whites (and Blacks)
Teachers’ personal experiences of sexual initiation motivating their sexuality education messages in secondary schools in Kampala, Uganda
Meaning, God, and prayer
Coping in plain sight
Self and Illness
Paradise regained
Storm Warnings
A False Convergence
A Cognitivist’s View of the Units Debate in Cultural Anthropology
Why Is Mississippi More Religious Than New Hampshire? Material Security and Ethnicity as Factors
Cultural Context and Psychological Needs in Canada and Brazil
Norm internalization and the cognitive mechanism of cultural consonance
Food as faith
Commentary on Searle's ‘Social ontology
Buddha as a God
Affect hunger and the evolution of human behavior
God may NOT be a Personexcl
Followership, deity and leadership
Mental God-Representation Reconsidered
From the Witches' Hammer to the Oedipus Complex
On the Rationality of Decision-Making Studies
On the Rationality of Decision-Making Studies
Introduction to Special Issue on The Missing Psychology in Cultural Anthropology's Key Words
Anthropology and Psychoanalysis
The soul freed of cares? Islamic prayer, subjectivity, and the contradictions of moral selfhood in Minangkabau, Indonesia
Can Psychoanalytic Theories Explain the Pakistani Woman? Intrapsychic Autonomy and Interpersonal Engagement in the Extended Family
The Practice of Mothering
| Unique citing works | 41 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,14 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2022 (33) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 40 |