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Dreaming - Tedlock, ed.
Revenge of the Windigo - Waldram
The Way of the Pipe - Waldram
Aboriginal Health in Canada - Waldram et al.
Revitalizations and Mazeways - Wallace
Wayward Women - Wardlow
Western Rationality and the Angel of Dreams - Wax
Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development - Weisner, ed.
African Families and the Crisis of Social Change - Weisner et al., eds.
Culture and Human Development - Whiting, ed.
The Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems - Wilce, ed.
Eloquence in Trouble - Wilce
Latah in Southeast Asia - Winzler
Narratives in Action - Wortham
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Dreaming:
Anthropological and Psychological Interpretations
edited by Barbara Tedlock
School of American Research Press, 1991.
ISBN: 0933452810
Essays explore the ways dreams are remembered, recounted, shared, interpreted, and used by peoples spanning the globe from New Guinea to the Andes. The focus is on dreaming as a social and cultural process that can be illuminated by anthropological perspectives. "The authors, Jungian analysts, write for psychoanalysts and therapists who wish to integrate dream interpretation into their clinical practice. In this book, first published (hardcover) in 1987, ten contributing anthropologists and psychologists explore the ways in which dreams are remembered, recounted, shared (or not shared), interpreted, and used by peoples around the world."
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Revenge of the Windigo:
The Construction of the Mind and Mental Health of North American Aboriginal Peoples
by James B. Waldram
University of Toronto Press, 2004.
ISBN: 0802086004
A medical anthropologist, Waldram (psychology, U. of Saskatchewan) examines knowledge about North American Aboriginal mental health, who has generated that knowledge, how it has been generated and communicated, and its implications for Aboriginal peoples. The emphasis is not on the mental health of Aboriginal people itself, but rather on the intellectual traditions that have shaped how, from the perspective of mind and culture, order and disorder, Aboriginal peoples have been portrayed. The author's intent is to critically assess the enormous amount of information about Aboriginal mental health, deconstruct it, identify misleading notions, and offer suggestions for possible changes, where warranted.
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The Way of the Pipe:
Aboriginal Spirituality and Symbolic Healing in Canadian Prisions
by James B. Waldram
Broadview Press, 1997.
ISBN: 1551111594
The Way of the Pipe combines scholarly perspectives with extensive narratives from the Elders and inmates to provide a unique understanding of the issues of symbolic healing and prison rehabilitation. It forces us to reconsider the goals and methods of prison treatment, especially for Aboriginal inmates. And on a broader level, it offers insight into the cultural divide between communities both behind the walls and beyond.
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Aboriginal Health in Canada:
Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives
by James B. Waldram with T. Kue Young and D. Ann Herring
University of Toronto Press, 1995.
ISBN: 0802059562
In light of numerous studies demonstrating the poor health status of Aboriginal peoples relative to the Canadian population in general, the authors examine the complex web of physiological, psychological, spiritual, historical, sociological, cultural, economic, and environmental factors that contribute to health and disease patterns among the Aboriginal peoples. An overview of Aboriginal peoples in Canada provides a general background for non-specialists.
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Revitalizations and Mazeways
by Anthony F. C. Wallace, with Robert S. Grumet, ed.
University of Nebraska Press, December 2003.
ISBN: 0803298366
Anthony F. C. Wallace, one of the most influential American anthropologists of the modern era, brings together some of his most stimulating and celebrated writings. These essays feature his seminal work on revitalization movements, which has profoundly shaped our understanding of the processes of change in religious and political organizations--from the nineteenth-century code of the Seneca prophet known as Handsome Lake to the origins of world religions and political faiths. Wallace also discusses mazeways--mental maps that join personalities with cultures and thereby illustrate how individuals embrace their culture, conduct everyday life, and cope with illness and other forms of severe personal or cultural stress.
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Wayward Women:
Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society
by Holly Wardlow
University of California Press, 2006.
ISBN: 0520245601
Written with uncommon grace and clarity, this extremely engaging ethnography analyzes female agency, gendered violence, and transactional sex in contemporary Papua New Guinea. Focusing on Huli "passenger women," (women who accept money for sex) Wayward Women explores the socio-economic factors that push women into the practice of transactional sex, and asks how these transactions might be an expression of resistance, or even revenge. Challenging conventional understandings of "prostitution" and "sex work," Holly Wardlow contextualizes the actions and intentions of passenger women in a rich analysis of kinship, bridewealth, marriage, and exchange, revealing the ways in which these robust social institutions are transformed by an encompassing capitalist economy. Many passenger women assert that they have been treated "olsem maket" (like market goods) by their husbands and natal kin, and they respond by fleeing home and defiantly appropriating their sexuality for their own purposes. Experiences of rape, violence, and the failure of kin to redress such wrongs figure prominently in their own stories about becoming "wayward." Drawing on village court cases, hospital records, and women's own raw, caustic, and darkly funny narratives, Wayward Women provides a riveting portrait of the way modernity engages with gender to produce new and contested subjectivities.
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Western Rationality and the Angel of Dreams:
Self, Psyche, Dreaming
by Murray L. Wax
Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.
ISBN: 0847693759
Throughout recorded time people have been fascinated by dreams and their meanings. Tribal societies valorize knowledge obtained from dreams and respect possession as a channel for revelation. In contrast, implicit in Western intellectual thought is an image of the human as a non-social atom with a unitary and rational mind, which turns dreaming into an epiphenomenom or, for Freud, a neurosis in miniature. Integrating materials from anthropology, post-Freudian psychoanalysis, social evolution, and the social psychology of Mead, Cooley, James, and Sullivan, this book offers a view of the self and the psyche that provides meaning to the views of traditional peoples on dreams, possession, and the loss of self.
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Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development provides a new perspective on the study of childhood and family life.ÊSuccessful development is enhanced when communities provide meaningful life pathways that children can seek out and engage.Ê Successful pathways include both a culturally valued direction for development and competence in skills that matter for a child's subsequent success as a person as well as a student, parent, worker, or citizen.ÊTo understand successful pathways requires a mix of qualitative, quantitative, and ethnographic methods--the state of the art for research practice among developmentalists, educators, and policymakers alike.
This volume includes new studies of minority and immigrant families, school achievement, culture, race and gender, poverty, identity, and experiments and interventions meant to improve family and child contexts.ÊDiscovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development will be of enormous value to everyone interested in the issues of human development, education, and social welfare, and among professionals charged with the task of improving the lives of children in our communities.
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Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development:
Mixed Methods in the Study of Childhood and Family Life
edited by Tom S. Weisner
University of Chicago Press, 2005.
ISBN: 0226886646
Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development provides a new perspective on the study of childhood and family life. Successful development is enhanced when communities provide meaningful life pathways that children can seek out and engage. Successful pathways include both a culturally valued direction for development and competence in skills that matter for a child's subsequent success as a person as well as a student, parent, worker, or citizen. To understand successful pathways requires a mix of qualitative, quantitative, and ethnographic methods--the state of the art for research practice among developmentalists, educators, and policymakers alike.
This volume includes new studies of minority and immigrant families, school achievement, culture, race and gender, poverty, identity, and experiments and interventions meant to improve family and child contexts. Discovering Successful Pathways in Children's Development will be of enormous value to everyone interested in the issues of human development, education, and social welfare, and among professionals charged with the task of improving the lives of children in our communities.
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African Families and the Crisis of Social Change
edited by Tom S. Weisner, Candice Bradley and Philip L. Kilbride
Greenwood Publishing Group, 1997.
ISBN: 0897895193
African families face serious crises today. They are under economic, demographic and political pressures of all kinds; yet, families are not mere hapless victims of global change. They are proactive, resilient agents and creators of change. This volume studies global and national change from the point of view of families in local communities. Contributors are from Africa, North America, and Europe, and provide socially and historically based, culturally rich, multigenerational, and comparative perspectives on family life in Africa today. The essays explore contemporary change in African families, and consequences for children and parents, the elderly, gender roles, moral values, fertility, health (HIV and nutrition), and economic development. Ultimately, despite desperate economic, sociohistorical, demographic, and political circumstances, African families remain vitally important for social and psychological support throughout an individual's life span.
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Culture and Human Development:
The Selected Papers of John Whiting
SPA Publication No. 6
by John Wesley Mayhew Whiting and Eleanor Hollenberg Chasdi, eds.
Cambridge University Press, 1994.
ISBN: 0521435153
John Whining is a leading figure in psychological anthropology and one of the pioneers in the development of systematic cross-cultural research. His work is interdisciplinary and he draws mainly upon the fields of anthropology, psychoanalysis and learning and behavior theory. This book includes some of his most influential articles on culture and human development, as well as a comprehensive autobiographical essay. Roy D'Andrade's introduction assesses the unique contributions of John Whiting and locates his work within the contemporary currents of psychological anthropology.
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The Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems
edited by James M. Wilce
Routledge Press, 2003.
ISBN: 0415310059
Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems introduces a provocative new hypothesis in medico-social theory - the theory that immunity and disease are in part socially constituted. It argues that immune systems function not just as biological entities but also as symbolic concepts charged with political significance. Bridging elements of psychology, sociology, body theory, immunology and medical anthropology, twelve papers from leading scholars explain some of the health-hazards of emotional and social pressure, whilst analysing the semiotic and social responses to the imagery of immunity.
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Eloquence in Trouble:
The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh
by James M. Wilce.
Oxford University Press, 1998.
ISBN: 0195106873
This book captures the articulation of several troubled lives in Bangladesh as well as the threats to the very genres of their expression, Lament in particular. The first ethnography of one of the most spoken mother tongues on earth, Bangla, this study represents a new approach to troubles talk, combining the rigor of discourse analysis with the interpretive depth of psychological anthropology.
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Latah in Southeast Asia:
The History and Ethnography
of a Culture-Bound Syndrome
SPA Publication No. 7
by Robert L. Winzeler
Cambridge University Press, 1995.
ISBN: 0521472199
Latah, the Malayan hyperstartle pattern, has fascinated Western observers since the late nineteenth century and is widely regarded as a "culture-bound syndrome". Dr Winzeler critically reviews the literature on the subject, and presents new ethnographic information based on his own fieldwork in Malaya and Borneo. He considers the biological and psychological hypotheses that have been proposed to account for latah, and explains the ways in which local people understand it. Arguing that latah has specific social functions, he concludes that it should not be treated as an "illness" or "syndrome".
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Narratives in Action:
A Strategy for Research and Analysis
by Stanton E. F. Wortham
Teachers College Press, March 2001.
ISBN: 0807740756
Telling a story about oneself--in therapy, or to a friend--can
sometimes transform that self. This book presents novel theories and methods for studying how narrative discourse can construct or transform the narrator's self. The book offers both dialogic theories of narrative and self and a systematic method for narrative analysis. The analyses focus on how narrators enact social events, with their
audiences, while telling their stories. These dialogic theories and
systematic methods for studying interactional positioning in narrative illuminate how autobiographical narrators can construct and sometimes transform themselves.
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