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Education:
- PhD Stanford University 1971
- Specialties:
- Culture Theory
- Psychological Anthropology
- Methods
- Gender
- Africa
- North America
Research Interests:
Current projects: The Self, The Internalization of Culture, Attachment and Separation Cross-culturally, Child Rearing and Personality
Naomi Quinn received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1971. Her research has pursued the reconstruction, from reasoning, metaphor, and other features of their discourse on it, of Americans' cultural understandings of marriage. Her newest research pursues the effects of early attachment and separation on adult intimate relationships cross-culturally. Her enduring interest is in the nature of culture: its sharedness, force, enduringness, and thematicity. She is part of a current effort in cognitive anthropology to explain these and other properties of culture on the basis of schema theory and, within this framework, to relate culture to language, cognition, motivation, affect, psychodynamic processes, and individual experience, research and theory represented by a series of books, book chapters, and articles. She also has an ongoing interest in anthropological research on gender, and was a member of the editorial collective that produced an Ethos special issue on Feminist Contributions to Psychological Anthropology (2004).
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- N. Quinn, ed. Finding Culture in Talk: A Collection of Methods. Culture, Mind and Society, book series of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
- N. Quinn and W. Luttrell. "Psychodynamic universals, cultural particulars in feminist anthropology: rethinking Hua gender beliefs." Ethos vol. 32 no. 4 (2004): 493-513. (theme issue, Contributions to the Feminist Psychological Anthropology)
- N. Quinn. "Why are there so few Women Presidents of the Society for Psychological Anthropology?." Ethos vol. 27 no. 1 ( 1999): 89-103. (theme issue, SPA President's Forum)
- C. Strauss and N. Quinn. A Cognitive Theory of Cultural Meaning. Cambridge University Press, 1997. [abs]
- N. Quinn. "Culture and Contradiction: The Case of Americans Reasoning About Marriage." Ethos vol. 24 no. 3 ( 1996): 391-425.