Listening To Culture: Constructing Reality From Everyday Talk
Author:   Nandita Chaudhary
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Inc
ISBN:  

9780761932000


Pages:   235
Publication Date:   06 May 2004
Format:   Hardback
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Listening to Culture presents everyday cultural activity in Indian family and community life in order to demonstrate why and how such activity must be encompassed in the study of individuals and collectives. The author explores the rich world of everyday talk-in families, with children, between friends, at the work place-and shows the significance of this domain of social activity for an understanding of culture.

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Author:   Nandita Chaudhary
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint:   SAGE Publications Inc
Weight:   0.380kg
ISBN:  

9780761932000


ISBN 10:   0761932003
Pages:   235
Publication Date:   06 May 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Foreword - Jaan Valsiner Preface Approaching Cultural Realities Cultural Terrains and Language Activity: Interactively Constructed Domains Children and Cultural Continuity: Family, Childhood and Socialism Investigating Reality: Methodological Predicaments The Cultural Setting: Dominant Themes of Childhood in India Taxonomy of Personhood in Conversations Domains of Heightened Activity Principles of Cultural Activity Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index

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Nandita Chaudhary is presently working as Reader at the Department of Human Development and Childhood Studies at Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi. She has a Ph.D. from University of Delhi and has been a Fulbright scholar at the Department of Psychology, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. She has written several journal articles and chapters in books, and is actively involved with crosscultural research and publication projects. She has authored Listening to Culture published by SAGE, New Delhi in 2004, and is Associate editor of the SAGE journal Culture and Psychology, and consultant editor for the SAGE journal  Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.

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