Mentality and thought : north, south, east and west

"Mentality and Thought - North, South, East and West presents the reader with an informed pluri-disciplinary discussion of the concept of mentality, its relevance and its interconnection with culture past and present, on the one hand, and cognition and mental frames on the other. The exploration is one of both theoretical depth and socio-historical width, each paper providing its own synthetic combination of conceptual and empirical analysis."--BOOK JACKET. Read more... Crises in culture : a conceptual history of mentality / Liv Egholm Feldt -- Language, cognition and mentality / Per Durst-Andersen -- The conflict between Indian vedic mentality and western modernity / Søren Brier -- The Indo-European tripartite society : archaic vestiges or present reality / Michael Herslund -- Dealing with difference : social inequality and mobility in the US, the UK and Australia / Malene Djursaa -- Arab mentality : Orientalism, anti-colonialism and the Arab mind / Jakob Egholm Feldt -- Utopian discourse and imaginary in Latin America / Jan Gustafson -- "Ce qui n'est pas clair n'est pas français..." : representations of the French in the French-speaking world / Lisbeth Verstraete-Hansen -- Cultural fingerprints in national weather forecasts / Mette Skovgaard Andersen -- Does a common Spanish mentality exist? / Carsten Humlebœk -- Puritans in the wilderness : American foreign policy as the loss and reassertion of national innocence / Niels Bjerre-Poulsen -- Chinese personality : a center in a network / Verner Worm -- A German mentality? / Per Øhrgaard.

Mentality and Thought North, South, East and West presents the reader with an informed pluri-disciplinary discussion of the concept of mentality, its relevance and its interconnection with culture past and present, on the one hand, and cognition and mental frames on the other.

Each of the four parts of the book offers insights gained from applying a particular perspective:

• Historiography and linguistics in Part One: Towards an Understanding of Mentality and Its Foundations
• Indian and European epistemology and ontology in Part Two: Fundamentals of Mentality
• Cultural and political representations in Part Three: Area Studies in Mentality and in Part Four: National studies in Mentality .

The book is of relevance to scholars as well as students interested in the interplay between culture, mentality and cognition.

This book provides a multi-disciplinary discussion of the concept of mentality, its relevance, and its interconnection with culture, past and present, on the one hand, and cognition and mental frames on the other. Organized in four parts, the book offers insights gained from applying particular perspectives, such as: Part One - Towards an Understanding of Mentality and Its Foundations (historiography and linguistics) * Part Two - Fundamentals of Mentality (Indian and European epistemology and ontology) * Part Three - Area Studies in Mentality (cultural and political representations) * Part Four - National Studies in Mentality. The book will be of relevance to scholars, as well as students interested in the interplay between culture, mentality, and cognition.