Innovations in Psychological Anthropology (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Lester, Rebecca

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume is a bold and long-overdue intervention into the field of psychological anthropology. It asks how scholars might both constructively destabilize old frameworks borne from the field's complex past and seed innovative new engagements in order to chart an ethical, responsible, and constructive way forward.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003861843
• Artikelnr.: 69933839

Autorenporträt

Rebecca J. Lester, Ph.D., LCSW is Professor of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. Her research interests include mental health, gender, sexuality, and religion, with a particular interest in how people experience and navigate existential challenges. She is also a practicing psychotherapist specializing in eating disorders, trauma, personality disorders, mood disorders, and gender/sexuality issues. Her most recent book, Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America (2019) was awarded a Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Recovering Innovations: Louis Eugene King and the Study of
Race in the United States; 2. Re-Cognizing Anthropological Methods: Toward
a Decolonizing Cognitive Anthropology; 3. Beyond "Psychotics" and the
"Feeble-Minded": Psychological Anthropology and the Disabled Mind; 4. On
Love and Abolition: Building a Speculative Practice of Transformative
Justice in Psychological Anthropology; 5. Listening to Refusal: Exploring
the Political in Psychological Anthropology; 6. Revisiting and Revisioning
Silence and Narrative in Psychological Anthropology; 7. Dangerous
Intimacies: Resentment, Risk, and PTSD Recovery in "Post-Racial" America;
Afterword