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.
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Between Culture and Biology integrates both the biological and the cultural perspectives on ontogenetic development.
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Introduction |
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Culture, biology and development across history |
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Comparative developmental perspectives on culture: the great apes |
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The mutual definition of culture and biology in development |
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Part II Perspectives on development informed by culture |
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Indian parents' ethnotheories as reflections of the Hindu scheme of child and human development |
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Indigenous conceptions of childhood development and social realities in southern Africa |
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The myth of lurking chaos |
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Integrating cultural, psychological and biological perspectives in understanding child development |
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Part III Perspectives on development drawing from the universal and the specific |
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Between individuals and culture: individuals' evaluations of exclusion from social groups |
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Biology, culture and child rearing: the development of social motives |
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Part IV Perspectives on development informed by evolutionary thinking |
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Development as the interface between biology and culture: a conceptualization of early ontogenetic experiences |
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Integrating evolution, culture and developmental psychology: explaining caregiver-infant proximity and responsiveness in central Africa and the USA |
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Shame across cultures: the evolution, ontogeny and function of a `moral emotion' |
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303 | (17) |
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Behaviour-culture relationships and ontogenetic development |
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320 | (21) |
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Paradigms revisited: from incommensurability to respected complementarity |
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Epilogue: conceptions of ontogenetic development; integrating and demarcating perspectives |
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| Author index |
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| Subject index |
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Heidi Keller is Professor of Psychology and Head of the Department on Culture and Development at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. Ype H. Poortinga is part-time Professor of Cross-Cultural Psychology at Tilburg University in the Netherlands and at the University of Leuven in Belgium. Alex Schölmerich is Professor of Psychology at the Department of Developmental Psychology of the Ruhr-University, Bochum.
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