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Book SynopsisThis 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
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"What a wonderful surprise! Having edited, reviewed and contributed to many anthologies, I approached this Companion skeptically ... But the uniformly high quality of the writing soon won me over ... This volume achieves its goals of introducing new readers to psychological anthropology and of contributing to 'its growing vigor'."
Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology
"Any publication which draws the attention of psychologists to the existence of other cultures is extremely welcome ... This book can be recommended for its broad coverage and its range of interesting ideas. All university libraries catering for courses in psychology or in any sociological field should consider acquiring a copy."
Reference Reviews
“A much needed and impressive book. Soundly linking issues of perennial interest to psychological anthropologists, these chapters make for a truly significant advance in anthropology. The pages sparkle with rich, innovative ideas drawn from carefully rendered research by leading scholars.”
Robert Desjarlais, Sarah Lawrence College
“On the forefront of discussions about the relationship between culture and psyche, this exciting, wide-ranging collection makes clear how much the field has changed and developed in recent years.”
Tanya Luhrmann, University of Chicago
Table of ContentsSynopsis 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
