Indigenous Psychologies
Research and Experience in Cultural Context
1st Edition
Published on 5. October 1993
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-8039-5141-9 (ISBN)
Description
Fourteen different cultures from five continents are represented in this volume, which asks Western psychologists to rethink the premises of their discipline and conceptualize a new universal psychology. With examples from Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and North America, contributors emphasize that psychology has traditionally meant Western psychology. However, psychology practised in other parts of the world raises alternative views of human behaviour.
Contributors argue that indigenous psychology requires each culture to be understood within its own frame of reference and examined in terms of its own social and ecological context. They present aspects of their own indigenous psychology, demonstrating the diversity and wealth of psychological knowledge to be obtained when attention is paid to indigenous research traditions.
Contributors argue that indigenous psychology requires each culture to be understood within its own frame of reference and examined in terms of its own social and ecological context. They present aspects of their own indigenous psychology, demonstrating the diversity and wealth of psychological knowledge to be obtained when attention is paid to indigenous research traditions.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
570 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8039-5141-9 (9780803951419)
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John W. Berry (PhD, University of Edinburgh) is Professor Emeritus of psychology at Queen's University, Canada, and Research Professor, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. He received honorary doctorates from the University of Athens and Universite de Geneve (in 2001). He has published over 30 books in the areas of cross-cultural, intercultural, social and cognitive psychology with various colleagues. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology and the International Academy for Intercultural Research. He received the Hebb Award for Contributions to Psychology as a Science in 1999, the award for Contributions to the Advancement of International Psychology in 2012 (from CPA), the Interamerican Psychology Award from the Sociedad Interamericana de Psicologia (in 2001) and the Lifetime Contribution Award from IAIR (in 2005). His main research interests are in the role of ecology and culture in human development and in acculturation and intercultural relations, with an emphasis on applications to immigration, multiculturalism, educational and health policy.
Content
Introduction - Uichol Kim and John W Berry
Indigenisation of Psychology in India and Its Relevance - Durganand Sinha
Mexican Ethnopsychology - R Diaz-Guerrero
Ecological-Social Model of Greek Psychology - James Georgas
Between West and East - Pawel Boski
Humanistic Values and Concerns in Polish Psychology
Psychological Thought within the System of Russian Culture - B F Lomov et al
Traditional and Modern Psychologies in Competing Cultural Systems - Fathali Moghaddam
Lessons from Iran 1978-1981
Diversification of American Indians - Joseph Trimble and Beatrice Medicine
Forming an Indigenous Perspective
Developing a Filipino Psychology - Virgilio Enriquez
Latin American Psychology and World Psychology - Ruben Ardila
Is Integration Possible?
Indigenous Psychologies and Social Representations of the Body and Self - Denise Jodelet
Indigenous Analysis of Collective Representations - Sang-Chin Choi, Uichol Kim and Soo-Hyang Choi
A Korean Perspective
Indigenous Psychology in Africa - M O A Durojaiye
The Search for Meaning
Buddhist Psychology - Padmal de Silva
A Therapeutic Perspective
Relational Orientation in Asian Social Psychology - David Y F Ho
Psychology in and of Canada - John W Berry
One Small Step Toward a Universal Psychology
The Way Ahead - John W Berry and Uichol Kim
From Indigenous Psychologies to a Universal Psychology
Indigenisation of Psychology in India and Its Relevance - Durganand Sinha
Mexican Ethnopsychology - R Diaz-Guerrero
Ecological-Social Model of Greek Psychology - James Georgas
Between West and East - Pawel Boski
Humanistic Values and Concerns in Polish Psychology
Psychological Thought within the System of Russian Culture - B F Lomov et al
Traditional and Modern Psychologies in Competing Cultural Systems - Fathali Moghaddam
Lessons from Iran 1978-1981
Diversification of American Indians - Joseph Trimble and Beatrice Medicine
Forming an Indigenous Perspective
Developing a Filipino Psychology - Virgilio Enriquez
Latin American Psychology and World Psychology - Ruben Ardila
Is Integration Possible?
Indigenous Psychologies and Social Representations of the Body and Self - Denise Jodelet
Indigenous Analysis of Collective Representations - Sang-Chin Choi, Uichol Kim and Soo-Hyang Choi
A Korean Perspective
Indigenous Psychology in Africa - M O A Durojaiye
The Search for Meaning
Buddhist Psychology - Padmal de Silva
A Therapeutic Perspective
Relational Orientation in Asian Social Psychology - David Y F Ho
Psychology in and of Canada - John W Berry
One Small Step Toward a Universal Psychology
The Way Ahead - John W Berry and Uichol Kim
From Indigenous Psychologies to a Universal Psychology