Between Culture and Biology: Perspectives on Ontogenetic Development

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Pub. Date: 2003-01-13
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Between Culture and Biology breaks away from the traditional nature/nurture dialectic and brings together biological, psychological and cultural perspectives on development. In this thought-provoking book, the argument is put forward that the biological bases of behaviour and cultural context should be approached in an integrated fashion to properly understand ontogenetic development and that both the cultural and biological demain provide constraints and opportunities for development. It also examines the influence that various perspectives have had on developmental theory and the extent to which cultural ideas and practices reflect biological and psychological constraints. By drawing together editors and contributors who are all leading experts in their field, with diverse theoretical perspectives from a range of disciplines Between Culture and Biology develops an integrative approach to this fascinating topic while preserving intellectual depth and complexity.

Table of Contents

List of figures
xi
List of tables
xiii
Notes on contributors xiv
Acknowledgements xxi
Introduction 1(12)
Heidi Keller
Ype H. Poortinga
Axel Scholmerich
Part I Setting the scene
Culture, biology and development across history
13(17)
Gustav Jahoda
Comparative developmental perspectives on culture: the great apes
30(27)
Anne E. Russon
The mutual definition of culture and biology in development
57(22)
Patricia M. Greenfield
Part II Perspectives on development informed by culture
Indian parents' ethnotheories as reflections of the Hindu scheme of child and human development
79(10)
T.S. Saraswathi
Hema Ganapathy
Indigenous conceptions of childhood development and social realities in southern Africa
89(27)
Roderick Fulata Zimba
The myth of lurking chaos
116(20)
Ernst E. Boesch
Integrating cultural, psychological and biological perspectives in understanding child development
136(55)
Joan G. Miller
Part III Perspectives on development drawing from the universal and the specific
Between individuals and culture: individuals' evaluations of exclusion from social groups
159
Melanie Killen
Heidi Mcglothlin
Jennie Lee-Kim
Biology, culture and child rearing: the development of social motives
191(24)
Hans-Joachim Kornadt
Part IV Perspectives on development informed by evolutionary thinking
Development as the interface between biology and culture: a conceptualization of early ontogenetic experiences
215(26)
Heidi Keller
Integrating evolution, culture and developmental psychology: explaining caregiver-infant proximity and responsiveness in central Africa and the USA
241(29)
Barry S. Hewlett
Michael E. Lamb
Shame across cultures: the evolution, ontogeny and function of a `moral emotion'
270(33)
Michael J. Casimir
Michael Schnegg
Part V Metaperspectives
Culture and development
303(17)
Michael Cole
Behaviour-culture relationships and ontogenetic development
320(21)
Ype H. Poortinga
Karel Soudijn
Paradigms revisited: from incommensurability to respected complementarity
341(43)
Lutz H. Eckensberger
Epilogue: conceptions of ontogenetic development; integrating and demarcating perspectives
384(19)
Heidi Keller
Ype H. Poortinga
Axel Scholmerich
Author index 403(12)
Subject index 415

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