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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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
part |32 pages
Culture in education