Ethnopsychology research

Author: Li Jing
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: This book is the result of the refinement of the discipline of anthropology, as well as the outcome of the intersection between anthropology and psychology. This intersection holds significant importance for the study of both anthropology and psychology, particularly for anthropology, where this intersection appears even more essential and vital. The ethnic community is a highly complex social organism, with a system that is intricately structured. Broadly speaking, the system of an ethnic community includes a shared material life system, a shared cultural system, and a biological system. Each of these systems has multi-level structures. Taking the cultural structure of an ethnic community as an example, it includes material culture, spiritual culture, behavioral culture, and institutional culture. Furthermore, from the perspective of cultural forms, it can be divided into explicit culture and implicit culture. In terms of the current development of ethnic communities, the explicit culture of ethnic communities, i.e., external cultural characteristics such as clothing, food, housing, transportation, and other lifestyle aspects, are becoming increasingly less pronounced, while the degree of daily life integration is growing higher. However, the implicit culture of ethnic communities, i.e., internal characteristics such as ethnic consciousness, value systems, ways of thinking, historical sentiments, religious beliefs, and other ethnic traits, not only remain intact but may even become more conscious and intense to some extent. The deeper factors or foundation of this implicit culture are the psychological factors of the ethnic group.