Attachment Reconsidered : Cultural Perspectives on a Western Theory

Name: Attachment Reconsidered
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan
SKU: 9781137386717
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ISBN: 9781137386717

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Format Hardback

Book Series Culture, Mind, and Society

ISBN-10 1137386711

ISBN-13 9781137386717

Publisher Palgrave Macmillan

Imprint Palgrave Macmillan

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 18th, 2013

Print length 261 Pages

Weight 540 grams

Dimensions 16.60 x 24.20 x 2.10 cms

Product Classification: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography Social and cultural anthropology Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality The self, ego, identity, personality

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Since the 1950s, the study of early attachment and separation has been dominated by a school of psychology that is Euro-American in its theoretical assumptions. Based on ethnographic studies in a range of locales, this book goes beyond prior efforts to critique attachment theory, providing a cross-cultural basis for understanding human development.

Attachment theory has massively influenced contemporary psychology. While intended to be general, this western theory harbors a number of culturally biased assumptions and is devoted to decontextualized experimental procedures that fail to challenge this ethnocentrism. The chapters in this volume rethink attachment theory by examining it in the context of local cultural meanings, including the meanings of childrearing practices, the cultural models of virtue that shape those practices, and the translation of shared childhood experience into adult cultural understandings through developmental and psychodynamic processes. The current volume is not only a challenge to attachment theorists, but also an object lesson for psychologists of many other stripes.

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