The relationship between everyday experience and culture - seen as a set of ideas values or symbolic codes - has challenged social scientists and especially anthropologists for more than a century. As a comprehensive and critical account of knowledge and research in the field of culture theory leading social scientists explore the implications for understanding different aspects of subjective experience social practice and individual behavior. The focus of the volume is on the role of symbols and meaning in the development of mind self and emotion. They examine the content of culture and how it interacts with cognitive social and emotional growth; how ideas relate to attitudes feelings and behavior; how concepts and meanings are historically transmitted. They also explore methodological and conceptual problems involved in the definition and study of meaning and revisit the perennial problem of 'relativism' in light of topical advances in semantic analysis and in culture theory. This book will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience of anthropologists psychologists philosophers historians and linguists as well as those interested in hermeneutics and a science of subjectivity. Language: English