Exploring Borders: Understanding Culture and Psychology

by Mantovani,Giuseppe

• ISBN13: 9780415234009
• ISBN10: 041523400X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-02-09
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

InExploring Borders,Giuseppe Mantovani highlights and explores the ways in which culture acts as framework organising our experience. He emphasises the differences across and between cultures and examines the depths to which these can go. He also analyses the functions of culture, including: mediation, meaning-making, and forming a repertory of values and principles. Finally, he considers some of the challenges raised by taking a cultural perspective and examines how these may be addressed in society. This highly original and eminently readable narrative will be invaluable to scholars of psychology, media and cultural studies, and to all those fascinated by culture and eager to make the cultural dimension visible to all.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(4)
PART I Frames of experience	5	(26)
Birds and spirits	7	(9)
The roots of prejudice	16	(8)
Metaphors and analogies	24	(7)
PART II Immeasurable distances	31	(30)
Different shipwrecks	33	(10)
Hopes of happiness	43	(9)
So near and yet so far	52	(9)
PART III The web of culture	61	(28)
Sun counters	63	(9)
Pride and dignity	72	(9)
The blind man's cane	81	(8)
PART IV Culture in education	89	(32)
Cultivating memory	91	(11)
The sheriff comes for Virgil	102	(10)
Crossing borders	112	(9)
Conclusions	121	(4)
Notes	125	(17)
References	142	(7)
Index	149