This guide contains bibliographic references and links to internet resources for Psychological Anthropology.

Recommended Reading:

Between Cultures : Developing Self-Identity in a World of Diversity by H. Ned Seelye & Jacqueline Howell Wasilewski (Contributor) 1996

A Cognitive Theory of Cultural Meaning (Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology , No 9) by Claudia Strauss, et al 1998

Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization by Margaret Mead 1988

Contemplation in a World of Action (Gethsemani Studies in Psychological and Religious Anthropology) by Thomas Merton & Robert Coles 1999

Culture and Human Development: The Selected Papers of John Whiting (Publications of the Society of Psychological Anthropology, 6) by John Whiting (Editor) et al 1994

Culture, Schooling, and Psychological Development (Human Development, Vol 4) by Liliana Tolchinsky Landsmann (Editor) 1990

The Descent of Mind: Psychological Perspectives on Hominid Evolution by Michael C. Corballis & Stephen E. Lea (Editors) 1999

Dream and Culture by Susan Parman 1991

Dreaming : Anthropological and Psychological Interpretations by Barbara Tedlock (Editor) 1992

Emotional Expression Among the Cree Indians: The Role of Pictorial Representations in the Assessment of Psychological Mindedness by Nadia Ferrara Published 1998

The End of Time: Religion, Ritual, and the Forging of the Soul by Richard K. Fenn 1997

Experiences of Death : An Anthropological Account by Jennifer Hockey 1991

The Face of Deception Iris Johansen & Aris Johansen 1998

Gender Ideology and Psychological Reality: An Essay on Cultural Reproduction by Melford E. Spiro 1997

Handbook of Psychological Anthropology by Philip K. Bock (Editor) 1994

Human Motives and Cultural Models (Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology) by Roy G. D'Andrade & Claudia Strauss (Editors) 1992

Japanese Sense of Self (Publications for the Society for Psychological Anthropology) by Nancy R. Rosenberger (Editor) 1994

Latah in Southeast Asia: The History and Ethnography of a Culture-Bound Syndrome (Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology ; 7) by Robert L. Winzeler 1995

Look, Listen, Read by Claude Levi-Strauss Published 1998

Making of Psychological Anthropology II by Orozco 1994

Mental Territories : Mapping the Inland Empire by Katherine G. Morrissey 1997

Migrants of Identity : Perceptions of Home in a World in Movement & Nigel Rapport & Andrew Dawson (Editors) 1998

Money and the Human Condition by Mike Neary, et al 1998

New Directions in Psychological Anthropology (Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology) by Theodore Schwartz(Editor) 1993

Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places by John R. Stilgoe 1998

Psychological Anthropology by Philip K. Bock (Editor) 1994

Psychological Anthropology Reconsidered (Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, 8) by John M. Ingham 1996

Psychological Aspects of Modernity by Jerome Braun (Editor) 1993

Rethinking Psychological Anthropology: Continuity and Change in the Study of Human Action, Second Edition by Philip K. Bock 1999

Sex and Gender Hierarchies (Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, 4) by Barbara Diane Miller (Editor) 1993

The Soul of Popular Culture: Looking at Contemporary Heroes, Myths, and Monsters by Mary Lynn Kittleson (Editor) 1997

Twilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images from Plato to O.J. by Susan Bordo 1997

Virtual Futures: Cyberotics, Technology and Post-Human Pragmatism by Joan Broadhurst-Dixon (Editor), et al 1998

The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart by Ruth Behar 1997

Wild Hunger : The Primal Roots of Modern Addiction by Bruce Wilshire 1998

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Cognitive Anthropology generally focuses on the intellectual and rational aspects of culture, particularly through studies of language use.

Ethos was inaugurated at UCLA in 1973 by Walter Goldschmidt and Douglass Price-Williams. Upon the founding of the Society for Psychological Anthropology in 1977, Ethos became the society's official journal.

Evolution of Human Behavior Why is evolution relevant to human behavior?

Evolutionary Psychology studies the evolution of the human mind.

Psychological Anthropology is a subdiscipline of anthropology which investigates the psychological conditions that encourage endurance and change in social systems, with the goal of better understanding the relationship between culture and the individual. It covers approaches which examine anthropological investigations that make use of psychological concepts and methods.

Society for Psychological Anthropology of the American Anthropology Association.