A Companion to Psychological Anthropology (eBook, PDF)

Modernity and Psychocultural Change
Redaktion: Casey, Conerly; Edgerton, Robert B.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 552
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470997222
• Artikelnr.: 38198522

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Synopsis of Contents.

Notes on Contributors.

Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

Part I: Sensing, Feeling, and Knowing.

Part II: Language and Communication.

Part III: Ambivalence, Alienation, and Belonging.

Part IV: Aggression, Dominance, and Violence.

Afterword: Catherine Lutz (University of North Carolina, ChapelHill)Index

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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

"This ambitious volume argues for the relevance and necessityfor psychocultural perspectives for understanding globalization andits discontents.... I can not do justice here to the intriguingexamples, case studies, and discussions of methodologies drawn fromthe authors' own research that make these essays grounded andengaging reading." (Anthropos, 2009)

"Absolutely without an equal among texts in the field ... thisvolume (is) particularly user friendly for instructors andreaders." (Choice)

"What a wonderful surprise! Having edited, reviewed andcontributed to many anthologies, I approached this Companionskeptically ... But the uniformly high quality of the writing soonwon me over ... This volume achieves its goals of introducing newreaders to psychological anthropology and of contributing to 'itsgrowing vigor'." (Ethos: Journal of the Society forPsychological Anthropology)

"Any publication which draws the attention of psychologists tothe existence of other cultures is extremely welcome ... This bookcan be recommended for its broad coverage and its range ofinteresting ideas. All university libraries catering for courses inpsychology or in any sociological field should consider acquiring acopy." (Reference Reviews)"A much needed and impressive book. Soundly linking issues ofperennial interest to psychological anthropologists, these chaptersmake for a truly significant advance in anthropology. The pagessparkle with rich, innovative ideas drawn from carefully renderedresearch by leading scholars."
-Robert Desjarlais, Sarah Lawrence College

"On the forefront of discussions about the relationshipbetween culture and psyche, this exciting, wide-ranging collectionmakes clear how much the field has changed and developed in recentyears."
-Tanya Luhrmann, University of Chicago