Conceptual self as normatively oriented: The suitability of past personal narrative for the study of cultural identity

Culture and Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 371-398

  Gone, Joseph P ^a,b   Miller, Peggy J ^a   Rappaport, Julian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural identity; Cultural psychology; Gros Ventre; Narrative; Self construction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040435968     PISSN: 1354067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354067X9954001     Document Type: Article

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