Table of Contents

Part I Psychologies of the person and cultural context for personal change. 1.Psychotherapy and culture: healing in the Indian tradition. Sudhir Kakar. 2.Source and Influence: A Comparative Approach to African Religion and Culture. Lamin Sanneh. 3.Healing and Transformation: Perspectives on Development, Education and Community. Richard Katz. 4. Social Change and Personal Crisis: A View from an Indian Practice. B K Ramanujam. Part II Social Organization and Environments for Learning . 5.The Making of a Fqih: the Transformation of Traditional Islamic Teachers in Modern Cultural Adaptation. Jennifer E Spratt and Daniel A Wagner. 6.Cultural Continuity in an Educational Institution: A Case Study of the Suzuki Method of Music Instruction. Lois Taniuchi. 7. Learning Elementary School Mathematics as a Culturally Conditioned Process. Carlos E Vasco. Part III Cultural Perspectives on the Life Course . 8.The Work of Mourning: Death in a Punjabi Family. Veena Das. 9. Heart and self in old age: a Chinese Model. Julia Shiang. 10. Skills and Life Strategies of Japanese Business Women. Sumiko Iwao. 11. Selfhood in Context: Some Indian Solutions. Prakash Desai and Alfred Collins.

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Merry I White, Susan Pollak