Advances in Culture Theory from Psychological Anthropology

Naomi Quinn is Professor Emerita in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University, USA. She was formerly President of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, and the recipient of its 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award.

• 1. Introduction: Some Proposed Advances in Culture Theory.- 2. Reflections on Culture.- 3. Culture from the Perspective of Dual Inheritance.- 4. Kinship, Funerals, and the Durability of Culture in Chuuk.- 5. An Anthropologist’s View of American Marriage: Limitations of the Tool Kit Theory of Culture.- 6. The Complexities of Culture in Persons.- 7. Learning about Culture from Children: Lessons from Rural Sri Lanka.- 8. How Children Piece Together Culture through Relationships.- 9. Narrative and Healing in Dynamic Psychotherapy: Implications for Culture Theory.