Exploring Borders: Understanding Culture and Psychology / Edition 1

by Giuseppe Mantovani

Overview

In Exploring Borders Giuseppe Mantovani highlights and explores the ways in which culture acts as a framework organising our experience. He emphasises the differences across and between cultures and examines the depths to which these can go. He also analyses the functions of culture, including: mediation, meaning-making, and forming a repertory of values and principles. Finally, he considers some of the challenges raised by taking a cultural perspective and examines how these may be addressed in society.
This highly original and eminently readable narrative will be invaluable to scholars of psychology, media and cultural studies, and to all those fascinated by culture and eager to to make the cultural dimension visible to all.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415234009
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/01/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	164
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Giuseppe Mantovani is Professor of Attitudes at the University of Padova, Italy. His Previous publications include New Communication Enviroments (Taylor & Francis).

Table of Contents

Introduction. Part I. Frames of Experience 1. Birds and Spirits. 2. The Roots of Prejudice. 3. Metaphors and Analogies. Part II. Immeasurable Distances. 4. Different Shipwrecks. 5. Hopes of Happiness. 6. So Near and Yet So Far. Part III. The Web of Culture 7. Sun Counters. 8. Pride and Dignity. 9. The Blind Man's Cane. Part IV. Culture in Education 10. Cultivating Memory. 11. The Sheriff Comes for Virgil. 12. Crossing Borders. Conclusion. Notes. References.

Editorial Reviews

...[W]ritten with a wonderful touch: conceptually sophisticated and yet quite accessible...informative and yet entertaining; and finally, pressing the work of cultural psychology toward issues of pressing concern...would make a marvellous introduction to cultural psychology.

Kenneth Gergen

I am pretty familiar with the general theme and many of the materials contained in this book, but I never felt as if I were reading something "over again"...By recontextualizing even familiar materials and by his lucid explanations of the lessons to be learned from taking the cultural dimension of human life seriously, Mantovani makes the entire topic come alive.

Michael Cole