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Adaptive Aspects of Culture Shock
Author(s) -
Anderson Barbara Gallatin
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1971.73.5.02a00110
Subject(s) - dream , shock (circulatory) , identification (biology) , history , culture of the united states , sociology , aesthetics , psychology , social psychology , literature , art , medicine , ecology , psychotherapist , biology
This paper considers some reactions of a small group (fifteen) of American scholars to a summer of work in India. Dream and memory materials gathered during a three‐month period suggest the repression of certain kinds of symbolic links to American culture. Highly affective imagery is displaced by forms of cultural identification that do not threaten the individual's capacity to adapt to a traumatic cultural confrontation .