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Author White, Merry I

Title The Cultural Transition : Human Experience and Social Transformation in the Third World and Japan
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (216 pages)
Series Routledge Library Editions
Routledge Library Editions
Contents Book cover; title01; copyright01; title02; copyright02; contents; notes on contributors; acknowledgments; note on the project on human potential; introduction; part i: psychologies of the person and cultural contexts for personal change; i: psychotherapy and culture: healing in the indian tradition; ii: source and influence: a comparative approach to african religion and culture; iii: healing and transformation: perspectives on development, education and community; iv: social change and personal crisis: a view from an indian practice; part ii: social organization and environments for learning
V: the making of a fqih: the transformation of traditional islamic teachers in modern cultural adaptationvi: cultural continuity in an educational institution: a case study of the suzuki method of music instruction; vii: learning elementary school mathematics as a culturally conditioned process; part iii: cultural perspectives on the life course; viii: the work of mourning: death in a punjabi family; ix: 'heart' and self in old age: a chinese model; x: skills and life strategies of japanese business women; xi: selfhood in context: some indian solutions; appendix: project on human potential
Summary Contributors focus on three main questions, the answers to which are vital for understanding the needs of both national policy and personal fulfillment in widely differing cultures. The contributors examine the concept of the self that underlies the idea of virtue which facilitates learning in Japan, the Confucian-style bonding between generations in Chinese society and the authority of the traditional teacher with the modern Quaranic School. They study phenomena as diverse as the effect of Christian and Islamic influence on the native cultures of Africa, and the life strategies of Japanese bu
Notes Includes index
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Subject Social change -- Cross-cultural studies.
Social role -- Cross-cultural studies
Ethnopsychology.
Educational anthropology.
ethnopsychology.
Educational anthropology
Ethnopsychology
Social change
Social role
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
Author Pollak, Susan
ISBN 9780203843949
0203843940