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A companion to psychological anthropology : modernity and psychocultural change / edited by Conerly Casey and Robert B. Edgerton.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Blackwell companions to anthropology ; 4.
- Blackwell companions to anthropology ; 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnopsychology.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 523 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Time and consciousness / Kevin Birth
- An anthropology of emotion / Charles Lindholm
- "Effort after meaning" in everyday life / Linda C. Garro
- Culture and learning / Patricia M. Greenfield
- Dreaming in a global world / Douglas Hollan
- Memory and modernity / Jennifer Cole
- Narrative transformations / James M. Wilce, Jr.
- Practical logic and autism / Elinor Ochs and Olga Solomon
- Disability : global languages and local lives / Susan Reynolds Whyte
- Identity / Daniel T. Linger
- Self and other in an "amodern" world / A. David Napier
- Immigrant identities and emotion / Katherine Pratt Ewing
- Emotive institutions / Geoffrey M. White
- Urban fear of crime and violence in gated communities / Setha M. Low
- Race : local biology and culture in mind / Atwood D. Gaines
- Unbound subjectivities and new biomedical technologies / Margaret Lock
- Globalization, childhood, and psychological anthropology / Thomas S. Weisner and Edward D. Lowe
- Drugs and modernization / Michael Winkelman and Keith Bletzer
- Ritual practice and its discontents / Don Seeman
- Spirit possession / Erika Bourguignon
- Witchcraft and sorcery / Rene Devisch
- Genocide and modernity / Alexander Laban Hinton
- Corporate violence / Howard F. Stein
- Political violence / Christopher J. Colvin
- The politics of remorse / Nancy Scheper-Hughes.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611068905
- 9781281068903
- 128106890X
- 9781780341026
- 1780341024
- 9780470703885
- 0470703881
- 9781405166102
- 140516610X
- 9780470996409
- 0470996404
- 9780470997222
- 0470997222
- OCLC:
- 184983617
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