{"product_id":"personality-and-the-cultural-construction-of-society-paperback-softback-9780817356347","title":"Personality and the Cultural Construction of Society (Paperback \/ softback) 9780817356347","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePersonality and the Cultural Construction of Society\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid K. Jordan (Author), Marc J. Swartz (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780817356347\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 31 May 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e448 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 3.8 cm, 0.525 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Superb. . . . An outstanding contribution to the field of psychological anthropology in particular and anthropology in general.\" -- Ralph Bolton, Pomona College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e|\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The volume can be read with profit by all serious students of culture.\" -- \u003ci\u003eAmerican Anthropologist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e|\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Unabashedly aims at using ethnographic material to illuminate general problems about human nature.\" -- \u003ci\u003eAmerican Ethnologist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003ePyschological anthropology is a vital area of contemporary social science, and one of the field's most important and innovative thinkers is Melford E. Spiro. This volume brings together sixteen essays that review Spiro's theoretical insights and extend them into new areas. The essays center on several general problems: In what ways is it meaningful to speak of a social act as having \"functions\"? What elements and processes of human personality are universal, and why? What is the relationship between religion and personality? Why? What are the pyschological underpinnings of social manipulation?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52574292607256,"sku":"9780817356347","price":30.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/personality-and-the-cultural-construction-of-society-paperback-softback-9780817356347","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}