A Companion to Psychological Anthropology: Modernity and Psychocultural Change

The late twentieth century witnessed a rapid acceleration of globalizing processes, resulting in dramatic changes to the ways in which individuals experience emerging or dissolving cultural communities. It is therefore a critical time to highlight the work of psychocultural anthropology with its focus on cultural, psychological, and social interrelations at all levels and across cultures. A Companion to Psychological Anthropology is a groundbreaking volume that brings together leading scholars for a first definitive overview of contemporary ethnographic work and the processes of global change. The Companion is an essential resource for teachers and students, as well as scholars, policy makers, and social service.

Spis treści:
Synopsis of Contents.
Notes on Contributors.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
Part I: Sensing, Feeling, and Knowing:.
1. Time and Consciousness: Kevin Birth (Queens College, City University of New York).
2. An Anthropology of Emotion: Charles Lindholm (Boston University).
3. ‘Effort After Meaning’ in Everyday Life: Linda C. Garro (University of California, Los Angeles).
4. Culture and Learning: Patricia M. Greenfield (University of California, Los Angeles).
5. Dreaming in a Global World: Douglas Hollan (University of California, Los Angeles).
6. Memory and Modernity: Jennifer Cole (University of Chicago).
Part II: Language and Communication:.
7. Narrative Transformations: James M. Wilce, Jr. (Northern Arizona University).
8. Practical Logic and Autism: Elinor Ochs and Olga Solomon (both University of California, Los Angeles).
9. Disability: Global Languages and Local Lives: Susan Reynolds Whyte (University of Copenhagen).
Part III: Ambivalence, Alienation, and Belonging:.
10. Identity: Daniel T. Linger (University of California, Santa Cruz).
11. Self and Other in an ‘Amodern’ World: A. David Napier (University Coll ege London).
12. Immigrant Identities and Emotion: Katherine Pratt Ewing (Duke University).
13. Emotive Institutions: Geoffrey M. White (University of Hawaii).
14. Urban Fear of Crime and Violence in Gated Communities: Setha M. Low (The Graduate Center of the City University of New York).
15. Race: Local Biology and Culture in Mind: Atwood D. Gaines (Case Western Reserve University).
16. Unbound Subjectivities and New Biomedical Technologies: Margaret Lock (McGill University).
17. Globalization, Childhood, and Psychological Anthropology: Thomas S. Weisner and Edward D. Lowe (both University of California, Los Angeles).
18. Drugs and Modernization: Michael Winkelman and Keith Bletzer (both Arizona State University).
19. Ritual Practice and Its Discontents: Don Seeman (Emory University).
20. Spirit Possession: Erika Bourguignon (Ohio State University).
21. Witchcraft and Sorcery: René Devisch (Catholic University of Louvain, Leuven).
Part IV: Aggression, Dominance, and Violence:.
22. Genocide and Modernity: Alexander Laban Hinton (Rutgers University).
23. Corporate Violence: Howard F. Stein (University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center).
24. Political Violence: Christopher J. Colvin (Columbia University).
25. The Politics of Remorse: Nancy Scheper–Hughes (University of California, Berkeley).
Afterword: Catherine Lutz (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill).
Index

Nota biograficzna:
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 Citize nships” 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).

Okładka tylna:
The late twentieth century witnessed a rapid acceleration of globalizing processes, resulting in dramatic changes to the ways in which individuals experience emerging or dissolving cultural communities. It is therefore a critical time to highlight the work of psychocultural anthropology with its focus on cultural, psychological, and social interrelations at all levels and across cultures. A Companion to Psychological Anthropology is a groundbreaking volume that brings together leading scholars for a first definitive overview of contemporary ethnographic work and the processes of global change. The Companion is an essential resource for teachers and students, as well as scholars, policy makers, and social service.