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Some Alternative Viewpoints of the Negative Results of Euro-American Contact with Non-Western Group

American AnthropologistVolume 76, Issue 2 p. 334-337 Free Access Some Alternative Viewpoints of the Negative Results of Euro-American Contact with Non-Western Group ARTHUR E. HEPPLER, ARTHUR E. HEPPLER University of AlaskaSearch for more papers by this author ARTHUR E. HEPPLER, ARTHUR E. HEPPLER University of AlaskaSearch for more papers by this author First published: June 1974 https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1974.76.2.02a00120Citations: 1AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL References Cited DeVos, George A., and Arthur E. Hippler 1969 Cultural Psychology: Comparative Studies of Human Behavior. In Handbook of Social Psychology. Gardner Lindzey and Elliott Aronson, Eds. Second Edition. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley pp. 323– 417. Glazer, Nathan, and Daniel P. Moynihan 1963 Beyond the Melting Pot. Cambridge, MA. Hippler, Arthur E. 1969 Barrow and Kotzebue: An Exploratory Comparison of Acculturation and Education in Two Large Northwestern Alaska Villages. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Training Center for Community Programs. Hippler, Arthur E. 1970 From Village to Town: An Intermediate Step in the Acculturation of Alaskan Eskimos. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Training Center for Community Programs. Hippler, Arthur E. 1973 The Athabascans of Interior Alaska: A Culture and Personality Perspective. American Anthropologist 75: 1529– 1541. Hippler, Arthur E., L. Bryce Boyer, and Ruth M. Boyer 1973 The Psychocultural Significance of the Alaska Athabascan Potlatch Ceremony. In The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. (In press.). Hippler, Arthur E., and Stephen Conn 1972 Athabascan Law Ways and Their Relationship to Contemporary Problems of Bush Justice. Occasional Paper No. 7 of the Institute of Social, Economic and Government Research, University of Alaska. Hippler, Arthur E., and Stephen Conn 1973 Traditional Eskimo Law Ways and Their Relationship to Contemporary Problems of Bush Justice. Occasional Paper of the Institute of Social, Economic and Government Research, University of Alaska. (In press.). Lieber, Michael 1973 Culture and Poverty Again: Comments on Danielson's Review of Banfield. American Anthropologist 74: 1595– 1596. Peterson, John H., Jr. 1972 Assimilation, Separation and Out Migration in an American Indian Group. American Anthropologist 74: 1286– 1294. Robbins, Richard H. 1973 Alcohol and the Identity Struggle: Some Effects of Economic Change on Interpersonal Relations. American Anthropologist 75: 99– 122. Citing Literature Volume76, Issue2June 1974Pages 334-337 ReferencesRelatedInformation

A Note on the Use of "Ethno-Tests" and Western Projective Tests in a Peruvian Amazon Slum

Traditional psychological tests as the Rorschach and TAT have been shown to yield less than adequate date on non-Western populations or groups undergoing rapid culture change. The author, working among an urbanized Mestizo group in the Peruvian Amazon city of Iquitos, focuses upon what she calls an ethno-projec-tive device - in this case, a deck of fortune-telling cards, locally called naipes, which can be used to tap thematic materials present in a sample more adequately than a similar group to whom TATs were administered. She hypothesized that the use of Western projective tests would yield data of limited use when compared to a device such as the one under discussion, which has a history of over 400 years in Latin American culture. Her data did not enable her to confirm nor reject the original hypothesis, since it was virtually impossible to utilize the same sample in both testing situations. She compared TAT themes elicited from a sample of 45 female slum residents to card readings she made of the nai...

5. North America

Consecutive admissions of schizophrenics (paranoid and catatonic) belonging to different social classes and ethnic groups are studied by SANUA at 'thera peutic' hospitals and state mental hospitals regarding differences in family characteristics. The ethno-religious groups represented are Jews, Protestants, Irish and Italian. Differences were found in the incidence of parental mental illness, bereavement, and patterns of rejection and overprotection. On com parison of schizophrenic symptoms displayed by two non-Western ethnic groups in Hawaii (Filipino and Japanese-American) diagnosed in accordance with the Kraepelinian system significant differences were found by ENRIGHT and JAECKLE. This finding, the authors conclude, suggests that the usefulness of the Kraepelinian diagnostic system and its derivatives is limited by its culturally narrow origins and casts doubt on the meaningfulness of cross cultural comparisons of psychopathology that employ the Kraepelinian system. The main thesis of KAPLAN's and JOHNSON'S paper is that mental ill nesses are oriented to and shaped by the cultures' conceptions concerning them. This is demonstrated by reference to the Navaho tribe. Three distinctive Navaho illnesses are dealt with at length: 'Moth craziness', 'Ghost sickness' and 'Crazy violence'.