Bringing together leading authorities this definitive handbook provides acomprehensive review of the field of cultural psychology. Major theoreticalperspectives... » 

Bringing together leading authorities this definitive handbook provides acomprehensive review of the field of cultural psychology. Major theoreticalperspectives are explained and methodological issues and challenges arediscussed. The volume examines how topics fundamental to psychologyidentityand social relations the self cognition emotion and motivation anddevelopmentare influenced by cultural meanings and practices. It alsopresents cuttingedge work on the psychological and evolutionary underpinningsof cultural stability and change. In all more than 60 contributors havewritten over 30 chapters covering such diverse areas as food love religionintelligence language attachment narratives and work. «