Giuseppe Mantovani

Exploring Borders

Understanding Culture and Psychology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Highlights and explores the ways in which culture acts as a framework organising our experience. The emphasis is placed on the differences across and between cultures and the depths to which these can go.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 263g
• ISBN-13: 9780415234009
• ISBN-10: 041523400X
• Artikelnr.: 22122098

Autorenporträt

Giuseppe Mantovani is Professor of Attitudes at the University of Padova, Italy. His Previous publications include New Communication Enviroments (Taylor & Francis).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part I. Frames of Experience 1. Birds and Spirits. 2. The
Roots of Prejudice. 3. Metaphors and Analogies. Part II. Immeasurable
Distances. 4. Different Shipwrecks. 5. Hopes of Happiness. 6. So Near and
Yet So Far. Part III. The Web of Culture 7. Sun Counters. 8. Pride and
Dignity. 9. The Blind Man's Cane. Part IV. Culture in Education 10.
Cultivating Memory. 11. The Sheriff Comes for Virgil. 12. Crossing Borders.
Conclusion. Notes. References.