Cultural Transition

Informationen zum Autor Merry I White, Susan Pollak Zusammenfassung Focuses 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I Psychologies of the person and cultural context for personal change. 1.Psychotherapy and culture: healing in the Indian tradition. Sudhir Kakar. 2.Source and Influence: A Comparative Approach to African Religion and Culture. Lamin Sanneh. 3.Healing and Transformation: Perspectives on Development, Education and Community. Richard Katz. 4. Social Change and Personal Crisis: A View from an Indian Practice. B K Ramanujam. Part II Social Organization and Environments for Learning . 5.The Making of a Fqih: the Transformation of Traditional Islamic Teachers in Modern Cultural Adaptation. Jennifer E Spratt and Daniel A Wagner. 6.Cultural Continuity in an Educational Institution: A Case Study of the Suzuki Method of Music Instruction. Lois Taniuchi. 7. Learning Elementary School Mathematics as a Culturally Conditioned Process. Carlos E Vasco. Part III Cultural Perspectives on the Life Course . 8.The Work of Mourning: Death in a Punjabi Family. Veena Das. 9. Heart and self in old age: a Chinese Model. Julia Shiang. 10. Skills and Life Strategies of Japanese Business Women. Sumiko Iwao. 11. Selfhood in Context: Some Indian Solutions. Prakash Desai and Alfred Collins.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Merry I White
• Mitarbeit: Susan Pollak (Herausgeber), Susan M. Pollak (Herausgeber), Merry I White (Herausgeber), Merry I. White (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Routledge Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheint: 07.09.2010, verspätet
• EAN: 9780415588263
• ISBN: 978-0-415-58826-3
• Seiten: 318
• Serien: Routledge Library Editions: Japan; Routledge Library Editions: Japan
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Japan, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, REFERENCE / General, RELIGION / Buddhism / History, Buddhism, Religion: general, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, East Asian religions, Oriental Religions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General