Companion to Psychological Anthropology: Modernity and Psychocultural Change
Wiley-Blackwell (Hersteller)
9780470996409 (ISBN)
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This Companion provides the first definitive overview of psychocultural anthropology: a subject that focuses on cultural, psychological, and social interrelations across cultures. * Brings together original essays by leading scholars in the field * Offers an in-depth exploration of the concepts and topics that have emerged through contemporary ethnographic work and the processes of global change * Key issues range from studies of consciousness and time, emotion, cognition, dreaming, and memory, to the lingering effects of racism and ethnocentrism, violence, identity and subjectivity
Conerly Casey is Assistant Professor in the anthropology and psychology programs at the American University of Kuwait. Based on research with Muslim Hausa youths in northern Nigeria, she has published several articles and book chapters about the politics of identity and citizenship, media and mediated emotion, and violence, including 'Suffering and the Identification of Enemies in Northern Nigeria' in PoLAR (1998) and 'Mediated Hostility: Media, "Affective Citizenships" and Genocide in Northern Nigeria' in Genocide, Truth and Representation: Anthropological Approaches (2007), co-edited by Alexander Laban Hinton and Kevin O'Neill. Robert B. Edgerton is a University Scholar and Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a past president of the Society for Psychological Anthropology and has published a number of books in the field, including Rules, Exceptions, and Social Order (1985), Sick Societies (1992), and Warrior Women (2000).
Synopsis of Contents. Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: Sensing, Feeling, and Knowing:. 1. Time and Consciousness: Kevin Birth (Queens College, City University of New York). 2. An Anthropology of Emotion: Charles Lindholm (Boston University). 3. 'Effort After Meaning' in Everyday Life: Linda C. Garro (University of California, Los Angeles). 4. Culture and Learning: Patricia M. Greenfield (University of California, Los Angeles). 5. Dreaming in a Global World: Douglas Hollan (University of California, Los Angeles). 6. Memory and Modernity: Jennifer Cole (University of Chicago). Part II: Language and Communication:. 7. Narrative Transformations: James M. Wilce, Jr. (Northern Arizona University). 8. Practical Logic and Autism: Elinor Ochs and Olga Solomon (both University of California, Los Angeles). 9. Disability: Global Languages and Local Lives: Susan Reynolds Whyte (University of Copenhagen). Part III: Ambivalence, Alienation, and Belonging:. 10. Identity: Daniel T. Linger (University of California, Santa Cruz). 11. Self and Other in an 'Amodern' World: A. David Napier (University College London). 12. Immigrant Identities and Emotion: Katherine Pratt Ewing (Duke University). 13. Emotive Institutions: Geoffrey M. White (University of Hawaii). 14. Urban Fear of Crime and Violence in Gated Communities: Setha M. Low (The Graduate Center of the City University of New York). 15. Race: Local Biology and Culture in Mind: Atwood D. Gaines (Case Western Reserve University). 16. Unbound Subjectivities and New Biomedical Technologies: Margaret Lock (McGill University). 17. Globalization, Childhood, and Psychological Anthropology: Thomas S. Weisner and Edward D. Lowe (both University of California, Los Angeles). 18. Drugs and Modernization: Michael Winkelman and Keith Bletzer (both Arizona State University). 19. Ritual Practice and Its Discontents: Don Seeman (Emory University). 20. Spirit Possession: Erika Bourguignon (Ohio State University). 21. Witchcraft and Sorcery: Rene Devisch (Catholic University of Louvain, Leuven). Part IV: Aggression, Dominance, and Violence:. 22. Genocide and Modernity: Alexander Laban Hinton (Rutgers University). 23. Corporate Violence: Howard F. Stein (University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center). 24. Political Violence: Christopher J. Colvin (Columbia University). 25. The Politics of Remorse: Nancy Scheper-Hughes (University of California, Berkeley). Afterword: Catherine Lutz (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill). Index
| Verlagsort | Hoboken |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 177 x 253 mm |
| Gewicht | 1098 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9780470996409 / 9780470996409 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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