Companion to Psychological Anthropology Modernity and Psychocultural Change

Name: Companion to Psychological Anthropology Modernity and Psychocultural Change
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ISBN: 9781405162555

ISBN-10: 1405162554

ISBN-13: 9781405162555

Edition: 2007

Authors: Conerly Casey, Robert B. Edgerton, Conerly Casey

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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

Book details

List price: $73.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 6.80" wide x 9.70" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 2.068
Language: English



Synopsis of Contents


Notes on Contributors


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Sensing, Feeling, and Knowing



Time and Consciousness




An Anthropology of Emotion




"Effort After Meaning" in Everyday Life




Culture and Learning




Dreaming in a Global World




Memory and Modernity




Language and Communication



Narrative Transformations




Practical Logic and Autism




Disability: Global Languages and Local Lives




Ambivalence, Alienation, and Belonging



Identity




Self and Other in an "Amodern" World




Immigrant Identities and Emotion




Emotive Institutions




Urban Fear of Crime and Violence in Gated Communities




Race: Local Biology and Culture in Mind




Unbound Subjectivities and New Biomedical Technologies




Globalization, Childhood, and Psychological Anthropology




Drugs and Modernization




Ritual Practice and Its Discontents




Spirit Possession




Witchcraft and Sorcery




Aggression, Dominance, and Violence



Genocide and Modernity




Corporate Violence




Political Violence




The Politics of Remorse



Afterword



Index