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Part One: Historical Linkages of Culture and Psychology

Introduction: Culture in Psychology: A Renewed Encounter of Inquisitive Minds
Jaan Valsiner

1. Culture and Psychology: Words and Ideas in History
Gustav Jahoda

2. Völkerpsychologie
Rainer Diriwächter

3. Cultural-historical Psychology: Contributions of Lev Vygotsky
René van der Veer

Part Two: Inter- and Intra-disciplinary Perspectives

4. The Role of Indigenous Psychologies in the Building of Basic Cultural Psychology
Pradeep Chakkarath

5. Cultural Anthropology
Susan Rasmussen

6. Cross-cultural Psychology: Taking People, Contexts, and Situations Seriously
Heidi Keller

7. Archaeology and the Study of Material Culture: Synergies with Cultural Psychology
Alfredo Gonzalez-Ruibal

Part Three: Positions in the Field

8. Enactivism
Cor Baerveldt and Theo Verhaggen

9. Positioning Theory: Moral Dimensions of Social-cultural Psychology
Rom Harré

10. Macro-cultural Psychology
Carl Ratner

Part Four: Semiosis in Culture and Psychology

11. Social Life of the Sign: Sensemaking in Society
Sergio Salvatore

12. Meaningful Connections: Semiotics, Cultural Psychology, and the Forms of Sense
Robert Innis

13. The City as a Sign: A Developmental-Experiential Approach to Spatial Life
Nikita A. Kharlamov

14. Modeling Iconic Literacy: The Dynamic Models for Complex Cultural Objects
Rebeca Puche-Navarro

15. Existential Semiotics and Cultural Psychology
Eero Tarasti

Part Five: Action, Self, and Narration

16. Culture: Result and Condition of Action
Ernest Boesch

17. Culture Inclusive Action Theory: Action Theory in Dialectics and Dialectics in Action Theory
Lutz Eckensberger

18. The Other in the Self: A Triadic Unit
Lívia Mathias Simão

19. Dialogical Theory of Selfhood
Tiago Bento, Carla Cunha, and João Salgado

20. Narrative Scenarios: Toward a Culturally Thick Notion of Narrative
Jens Brockmeier

21. Culture in Action: A Discursive Approach
Kyoko Murakami

22. Social Representations as Anthropology of Culture
Ivana Marková

Part Six: Tools for Living: Transcending Social Limitations

23. Life Course: A Sociocultural Perspective
Tania Zittoun

24. Being Poor: Cultural Tools for Survival
Ana Cecília S. Bastos and Elaine P. Rabinovich

25. Cultural Psychology of Racial Ideology in Historical Perspective: An Analytic Approach to Understanding Racialized Societies and Their Psychological Effects on Lives
Cynthia E. Winston and Michael R. Winston

26. Belonging to Gender: Social Identities, Symbolic Boundaries, and Images
Ana Flávia do Amaral Madureira

27. Risk and Culture
Bob Heyman

28. Constructing Histories
Mario Carretero and Angela Bermudez

Part Seven: Emergence of Culture

29. Roots of Culture in the Umwelt
Riin Magnus and Kalevi Kull

30. Culture and Epigenesis: A Waddingtonian View
Iddo Tavory, Eva Jablonka, and Simona Ginsburg

31. From Material to Symbolic Cultures: Culture in Primates
Christophe Boesch

Part Eight: Human Movement Through Culture

32. Encountering Alterity: Geographic and Semantic Movements
Alex Gillespie, Irini Kadianaki, and Ria O'Sullivan-Lago

33. Crossing Thresholds: Movement as a Means of Transformation
Zachary Beckstead

34. Never at Home? Migrants between Societies
Mariann Märtsin and Hala W. Mahmoud

Part Nine: Culture of Higher Social Regulators: Values, Magic, and Duties

35. Values and Sociocultural Practices: Pathways to Moral Development
Angela Uchoa Branco

36. The Inter-generational Continuity of Values
M. Bame Nsamenang

37. The Making of Magic: Cultural Constructions of the Mundane Supernatural
Meike Watzlawik and Jaan Valsiner

38. Duties and Rights
Fathali M. Moghaddam, Cristina Novoa, and Zachary Warren

Part Ten: Cultural interfaces: Persons and Institutions

39. The Interface between the Sociology of Practice and the Analysis of Talk in the Study of Change in Educational Settings
Harry Daniels

40. The Work of Schooling
Guiseppina Marsico and Antonio Iannacone

41. Helping and Collaborating as Cultural Practices
Angélica López, Behnosh Najafi, Barbara Rogoff, and Rebeca Mejía Arauz

42. Design Experimentation and Mutual Appropriation: Two Strategies for Implementing Intervention Research
Deborah Downing-Wilson, Robert Lecusay, and Michael Cole

Part Eleven: Social Networks and Cultural Affectivity

43. Affective Networks: The Social Terrain of a Complex Culture
Nandita Chaudhary

44. Peer Relations
Li Xiao-wen

45. Culture in Play
Bert van Oers

46. Affect and Culture
Manfred Holodynski and Wolfgang Friedlmeier

Part Twelve: Towards Methodological Innovations for Cultural Psychology

47. Ambivalence and its Transformations
Emily Abbey

48. Guesses on the Future of Cultural Psychology: Past, Present-and-past
Aaro Toomela

49. Culture in Constructive Remembering
Brady Wagoner

50. How Can We Study Interactions Mediated by Money as a Cultural Tool: From the Perspectives of Toshiya Yamamoto, Noboru Takahashi, Tatsuya Sato, Takeo Kazuku, Oh Seonah, and Pian Chengnan

51. The Authentic Culture of Living Well: Pathways to Psychological Well-being
Tatsuya Sato, Mari Fukuda, Tomo Hidaka, Ayae Kido, Miki Nishida, and Mayu Akasaka

52. Psychology Courting Culture: Future Directions and Their Implications
Jaan Valsiner

About the Author

Jaan Valsiner, Ph.D., is Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology, Aalborg University; Professor of Psychology, Clark University; and founding editor of the journal Culture and Psychology.

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"Dozens of distinguished authors from all over the world contribute to this comprehensive handbook, covering 52 different topics in its 1130-plus pages. The comparison and contrast of various cultures provides readers with a thorough understanding of human behavior. The book should be in the libraries of both students and professionals. Weighted Numerical Score: 98 - 5 Stars!" -- DOODY'S
"In sum, The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology will challenge readers to
understand the complexity and variety of human cultural psychology. Libraries and
individual scholars, such as academic psychologists and social scientists interested in
cultural phenomena, will want it on their shelves as a reference source." -- PsycCRITIQUES

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