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Human behavior in global perspective : an introduction to cross-cultural psychology
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ISBN: 0205144780 Year: 1990 Volume: 160 Publisher: New York Oxford Beijing Pergamon Press

Applied cross-cultural psychology
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ISBN: 0803937865 Year: 1990 Publisher: Beverly Hills ; London : Sage Publications,


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Personality and the cultural construction of society : papers in honor of Melford E. Spiro
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ISBN: 0817384081 9780817384081 081730469X 9780817304690 9780817356347 0817356347 Year: 1990 Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press,

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Psychological 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?

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