A Companion to Psychological Anthropology (eBook)
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-99722-2 (ISBN)
- 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).
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 x
Notes on Contributors xvii
Acknowledgments xxv
Introduction 1
Part I Sensing, Feeling, and Knowing 15
1 Time and Consciousness 17
Kevin Birth
2 An Anthropology of Emotion 30
Charles Lindholm
3 "Effort After Meaning" in Everyday Life 48
Linda C. Garro
4 Culture and Learning 72
Patricia M. Greenfield
5 Dreaming in a Global World 90
Douglas Hollan
6 Memory and Modernity 103
Jennifer Cole
Part II Language and Communication 121
7 Narrative Transformations 123
James M. Wilce, Jr.
8 Practical Logic and Autism 140
Elinor Ochs and Olga Solomon
9 Disability: Global Languages and Local Lives 168
Susan Reynolds Whyte
Part III Ambivalence, Alienation, and Belonging 183
10 Identity 185
Daniel T. Linger
11 Self and Other in an "Amodern" World 201
A. David Napier
12 Immigrant Identities and Emotion 225
Katherine Pratt Ewing
13 Emotive Institutions 241
Geoffrey M. White
14 Urban Fear of Crime and Violence in Gated Communities
255
Setha M. Low
15 Race: Local Biology and Culture in Mind 274
Atwood D. Gaines
16 Unbound Subjectivities and New Biomedical Technologies
298
Margaret Lock
17 Globalization, Childhood, and Psychological Anthropology
315
Thomas S. Weisner and Edward D. Lowe
18 Drugs and Modernization 337
Michael Winkelman and Keith Bletzer
19 Ritual Practice and Its Discontents 358
Don Seeman
20 Spirit Possession 374
Erika Bourguignon
21 Witchcraft and Sorcery 389
René Devisch
Part IV Aggression, Dominance, and Violence 417
22 Genocide and Modernity 419
Alexander Laban Hinton
23 Corporate Violence 436
Howard F. Stein
24 Political Violence 453
Christopher J. Colvin
25 The Politics of Remorse 469
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Afterword 495
Catherine Lutz
Index 499
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.4.2008 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Blackwell Companions to Anthropology | Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Technik | |
| Schlagworte | acceleration • across • Anthropologie • Anthropology • Century • changes • Communities • Critical • Cultural • definitive • dramatic • Experience • focus • globalizing • groundbreaking • Individuals • Late • processes • psychocultural • Psychologie • Psychology • Rapid • Social & Cultural Anthropology • Soziale u. kulturelle Anthropologie • Time • twentieth • Ways • Work |
| ISBN-10 | 0-470-99722-2 / 0470997222 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-470-99722-2 / 9780470997222 |
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