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This innovative textbook is the ideal introduction to cultural psychology. It focuses on a holistic approach, which emphasizes that culture is created and shared by minds and society. Organized around short core concept chapters, the book encourages students to think critically about culture and the theories around it. Chapters explore what cultural psychology is and its forms of knowing, how cultural psychology can be used to understand higher psychological functions, and the human psyche as a whole. Each chapter contains definitions of key concepts, real-world examples from everyday human activities, reflection questions, short biographies of key figures relevant to cultural psychology, and chapter summaries. There are also links to video interviews from leading international scholars which provide critical reflections on core concepts in cultural psychology. This is the essential introductory book for students of cultural psychology, as well as cultural studies and anthropology. It will be useful for anyone looking to learn more about the history of ideas, the human mind, and its historical and material relationship with culture.

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"""Luca Tateo’s Fundamentals of Cultural Psychology is a rare achievement: It is both student-friendly and inviting at the same time that it is an intellectually challenging contribution to this rapidly growing field of study."" –Michael Cole, Distinguished University Professor, Emeritus at UCLA San Diego ""This text book about the fundamentals of cultural psychology is bound to be a classic. Professor Luca Tateo offers a new, clear, and compelling vision of cultural psychology that transcends disciplinary boundaries and geographies. The story of cultural psychology narrated here is drawn from philosophy, history, medicine, sociology, anthropology, art, and humanities, and theology. This textbook achieves a rare feat of creating a truly mind-opening learning experience for beginning and advanced students of psychology. This book offers a valuable resource for anyone who is genuinely interested in deepening their inquiry and transforming their understanding of the field of cultural psychology. "" - Sunil Bhatia, Lucy Marsh Haskell '19 Professor of Human Development at Connecticut College"

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Luca Tateo is Professor in Epistemology, Theory, and Methodology of Qualitative Research at the University of Oslo, Norway, and Visiting Associate Professor at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. He is co-editor in chief of the journal Human Arenas: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Psychology, Culture, and Meaning.

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