The Free Press, 1973. — 315 p. Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie -- man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing...
Mariner Books, 2000. — 476 p. Jaynes' definition of consciousness is synonymous with what philosophers call "meta-consciousness" or "meta-awareness", i.e., awareness of awareness, thoughts about thinking, desires about desires, beliefs about beliefs. This form of reflection is also distinct from the kinds of "deliberations" seen in other higher animals such as crows insofar as...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. — 352 p. The history of emotions is one of the fastest growing fields in current historical debate, and this is the first book-length introduction to the field, synthesizing the current research, and offering direction for future study. The History of Emotions is organized around the debate between social constructivist and universalist...
Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Inc., 1987. — 361 p. — ISBN10: 0876689500; ISBN13: 9780876689509. Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. With a new foreword by his daughter Mary Katherine Bateson, this classic anthology of his major work will continue to delight and inform...
Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007. — 550 p. — ISBN10: 9781405162555; ISBN13: 978-1405162555 The late twentieth century, which witnessed the rapid acceleration of globalizing processes, resulted in dramatic changes to the ways in which individuals experience emerging or dissolving cultural communities. It is therefore a critical time to highlight the work of psychocultural...
London: Routledge and Paul, 1951. — 286 p. The text is based upon readings of Eisler in archeology and anthropology; anything not covered by these disciplines is then dealt with using Jungian methods of dream analysis and the theory of archetypes. For instance, his remarks concerning the nature of life in prehistory are largely derived from his interpretations of the dreams of...
Indiana University Press, 1955. — 230 p. Origin & function of magic; Love magic or ilpindja of the Aranda connected with the wanderings of the wildcat ancestors, account of ceremony, use of large pole, part played by women in ritual; Separation anxiety - birth custom of Wolmeri, sorcery as practised by Narrinyeri (from Taplin), black magic of Kakadu, pointing bone of Euahlahi;...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 052159541X; ISBN13: 978-0521595414 — (Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology. Book 9) "Culture" and "meaning" are central to anthropology, but anthropologists do not agree on what they are. Claudia Strauss and Naomi Quinn propose a new theory of cultural meaning, one that gives priority to...
Santa Barbara, USA, ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2017. — 657 p. — ISBN: 1610696069. An engaging exploration of the scientific theories and medical conditions relating to stress and an examination of case studies that suggest ways to manage, reduce, and prevent stress in everyday life. Examines the impact of stress on both physical and psychological health and from both theoretical and...
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1955. — 462 p. Phonetic Key. Culture, Personality, and Experience. Personality Structure and the Evolution of Man. 1950. The Recapitulation Theory and Culture. 1939. The Rorschach Test in Personality and Culture Studies. The Self and Its Behavioral Environment. 1954. World View, Personality Structure, and the Self: The Ojibwa...
Chiloquin, OR: Inner Growth Books, 1990. — 336 p. — ISBN: 0-914073-36-2. Tracking the Elusive Human, Volume I stressed the practical character of type recognition and development, which provides the indispensable foundation for this volume. Here in Tracking the Elusive Human, Volume II we are going to explore: Part I: The history and development of Jung's psychological types...
London: Routledge, 2003. — 241 p. — ISBN: 0-203-26151-8; ISBN: 0-415-25554-6 Sex and Repression in Savage Society is a 1927 book by anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski. It is considered "a famous critique of psychoanalysis, arguing that the 'Oedipus complex' described by Freud is not universal." Malinowski gives a partial explanation of the role of sex in social organization...
Reaktion Books Ltd, 2019. — 232 p. — ISBN: 978-1-789140-67-6. What does it mean to feel something? What stimulates our desires, aspirations, and dreams? Did our ancestors feel in the same way as we do? In a wave of new research over the past decade, historians have tried to answer these questions, seeking to make sense of our feelings, passions, moods, emotions, and sentiments....
Boulder: Press, 2004. — 257 p. In a series of provocative conversations with Skeptic magazine Ssenior editor Frank Miele, renowned University of California-Berkeley psychologist Arthur R. Jensen details the evolution of his thoughts on the nature of intelligence, tracing an intellectual odyssey that leads from the programs of the Great Society to the Bell Curve Wars and beyond....
Chiloquin, OR: Inner Growth Books, 1988. — 176 p. Tracking the Elusive Human puts you on the trail that leads to the discovery of your type and its development. Here is a compassionate and tolerant view of what makes people different that will serve you well both at home and on the job. It describes C.G. Jung's psychological types, and the body and temperament types of William...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 052159541X; ISBN13: 978-0521595414 — (Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology. Book 9) "Culture" and "meaning" are central to anthropology, but anthropologists do not agree on what they are. Claudia Strauss and Naomi Quinn propose a new theory of cultural meaning, one that gives priority to...
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