ABSTRACT

In Exploring Borders Giuseppe Mantovani highlights and explores the ways in which culture acts as a framework organising our experience. He emphasises the differences across and between cultures and examines the depths to which these can go. He also analyses the functions of culture, including: mediation, meaning-making, and forming a repertory of values and principles. Finally, he considers some of the challenges raised by taking a cultural perspective and examines how these may be addressed in society.
This highly original and eminently readable narrative will be invaluable to scholars of psychology, media and cultural studies, and to all those fascinated by culture and eager to to make the cultural dimension visible to all.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

part |26 pages

Frames of experience

chapter |9 pages

Birds and spirits

chapter |8 pages

The roots of prejudice

chapter |7 pages

Metaphors and analogies

part |30 pages

Immeasurable distances

chapter |10 pages

Different shipwrecks

chapter |9 pages

Hopes of happiness

chapter |9 pages

So near and yet so far

part |28 pages

The web of culture

chapter |9 pages

Sun counters

chapter |9 pages

Pride and dignity

chapter |8 pages

The blind man's cane

part |32 pages

Culture in education

chapter |11 pages

Cultivating memory

chapter |9 pages

Crossing borders

chapter |4 pages

Conclusions