Snake charmers, bards, acrobats, magicians, trainers of performing
animals, and other nomadic artisans and entertainers have been a
colorful and enduring element in societies throughout the world.
Their flexible social system, based on highly specialized
individual skills and spatial mobility, contrasts sharply with the
more rigid social system of sedentary peasants and traditional
urban dwellers. Joseph Berland brings into focus the ethnographic
and psychological differences between nomadic and sedentary groups
by examining how the experiences of South Asian gypsies and their
urban counterparts contribute to basic perceptual habits and
skills. No Five Fingers Are Alike, based on three years of
participant research among rural Pakistani groups, provides the
first detailed description in print of Asian gypsies. By applying
methods of anthropological observation as well as psychological
experimentation, Berland develops a theory about the relationship
between social experience and mental growth. He suggests that there
are certain social conditions under which mental growth can be
accelerated. His work promises to stand as an important
contribution to the cross-cultural literature on cognitive
development.
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