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- Title
Changing Childhood in Polynesia: The impact of Robert Levy's Tahitians on Psychological Anthropology in Oceania.
- Authors
Levin, Paula F.
- Abstract
For over 75 years, Pacific Island societies have been sites of pioneering and significant research on culture, child socialization, and psychological development. With the publication of Robert Levy's Tahitians in 1973, psychological anthropology, in the Pacific was transformed. His analysis of psycho-cultural patterns among Tahitians advanced our understanding of how child socialization mediates between the bio-psychological template and the socio-cultural world. In the decades following Levy's study, household economic practices in rural French Polynesia changed dramatically. This article examines the impact of this social transformation on familial relations and cultural practices within the family. In particular, Levy's theories are used to explore the impact of these changes for the construction of personal experience, affect, and thought among rural Tahitian children.
- Subjects
POLYNESIA; ETHNOPSYCHOLOGY; LEVY, Robert I.; TAHITIANS; DEVELOPMENTAL psychology research; SOCIALIZATION research
- Publication
Ethos (00912131), 2005, Vol 33, Issue 4, p467
- ISSN
0091-2131
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1525/eth.2005.33.4.467