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Culture, Schooling, & Psychological Development - Landsmann, ed.
The Psychoanalysis of Race - Lane, ed.
Family Mealtime as a Context of Development and Socialization - Larson, Wiley, Branscomb, eds.
The Japanese Self in Cultural Logic - Lebra
Jesus in Our Wombs - Lester
Look, Listen, Read - Levi-Strauss
Mesocosm - Levy
Culture and Identity - Lindholm
Anthropology through a Double Lens - Linger
No One Home - Linger
The Good Parsi - Luhrmann
Of Two Minds - Luhrmann
Irregular Connections - Lyons & Lyons
Dreaming and the Self - Mageo, ed.
Power and the Self - Mageo, ed.
Theorizing Self in Samoa - Mageo
Exploring Borders - Mantovani
Affective Intelligence and Political Judgment - Marcus et al.
What's Behind the Symptom? - Martinez-Hernaez
Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots - Mattingly
Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness & Healing - Mattingly & Garro, eds.
Bringing Ritual to Mind - McCauley
Love and Honor in the Himalayas - McHugh
Culture and Psychiatric Diagnosis - Mezzich et al., eds.
Sex and Gender Hierarchies - Miller, ed.
Culture, Subject, Psyche - Molino, ed.
The Couch and the Tree - Molino, ed.
Where Id Was - Molino and Ware, eds.
Freely Associated - Molino, ed.
The Psychology of Cultural Experience - Moore and Matthews, eds.
Mental Territories - Morrissey
Culture, Self, and Meaning - de Munck
Romantic Love and Sexual Behavior - de Munck
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Culture, Schooling, and Psychological Development
edited by Liliana Tolchinsky Landsmann
Greenwood Publishing Group, 1991.
ISBN: 0893915297
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The Psychoanalysis of Race
edited by Christopher Lane
Columbia University Press, 1998.
ISBN: 0231109474
Are divisive political forces the sole cause of racism and its alarming recurrence in contemporary society? Or are there also subtler, more intractable reasons for racism's irrational power and historical persistence? This collection of essays takes the study of racism in a radically new direction--that of unconscious fantasies and identifications--offering perspectives from a variety of leading figures in many fields.
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Contributors include: Daniel Boyarin, Jacques Derrida, Alphonso Lingis, Jacqueline Rose, Charles Shepherdson, Claudia Tate, and Slavoj Zizek.
Table of Contents
The Psychoanalysis of Race: An Introduction
Pt. I. Current Dilemmas: Psychoanalysis and Postcolonialism
1. Human Diversity and the Sexual Relation
2. Geopsychoanalysis: "... and the rest of the world"
3. "Thus Spake the Subaltern": Postcolonial Criticism and the Scene of Desire
4. Uncanny Foreigners: Does the Subaltern Speak Through Julia Kristeva?
5. A Question of Accent: Ethnicity and Transference
6. Love Thy Neighbor? No, Thanks!
7. Schizoanalysis of Race
Pt. II. History and the Origins of Racism
8. Ethnos and Circumcision in the Pauline Tradition: A Psychoanalytic Exegesis
9. What Does a Jew Want?; or, The Political Meaning of the Phallus
10. Myths of Masculinity: The Oedipus Complex and Douglass's 1845 Narrative
11. Nat Turner's Thing
12. "Savage Ecstasy": Colonialism and the Death Drive
13. The Germs of Empires: Heart of Darkness, Colonial Trauma, and the Historiography of AIDS
Pt. III. Psychoanalysis and Race, an Uncertain Conjunction
14. Wulf Sachs's Black Hamlet
15. The Comedy of Domination: Psychoanalysis and the Conceit of Whiteness
16. Hitting "A Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick": Seraph on the Suwanee, Zora Neale Hurston's Whiteface Novel
17. "Nightmare of the Uncoordinated White-folk": Race, Psychoanalysis, and H. D.'s Borderline
18. Bonding Over Phobia
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Family Mealtime as a Context of Development and Socialization:
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, No. 111
edited by Reed W. Larson, Angela R. Wiley, Kathryn R. Branscomb
Jossey-Bass, 2006.
ISBN: 0787985775
This book examines the impact of family mealtime on the psychological development of young people. In the popular media, family mealtime is often presented as a vital institution for the socialization and development of young people, but also as one that is "going the way of the dinosaur." Although elements such as fast food and TV have become a part of many family mealtimes, evidence is beginning to suggest that mealtimes can also provide rich opportunities for children's and adolescents' development.
While what happens at mealtimes varies greatly among families, an outline of the forms and functions of mealtimes is beginning to emerge from this research. In this issue, leading mealtime researchers from the fields of history, cultural anthropology, psycholinguistics, psychology, and nutrition critically review findings from each of their disciplines, giving primary focus on family mealtimes in the United States. The authors in this issue examine the history of family mealtimes, describe contemporary mealtime practices, elucidate the differing transactional processes that occur, and evaluate evidence on the outcomes associated with family mealtimes from children and adolescents.
If you are a student, researcher, scholar, or professional interested in this topic, you will find this issue to be a valuable contribution to your existing knowledge of the subject.
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The Japanese Self in Cultural Logic
by Takie Sugiyama Lebra
University of Hawai'i Press, 2005.
ISBN: 0824828402
The self serves as a universally available, effective, and indispensable filter for making sense of the chaos of the world. In her latest book, Takie Lebra attempts a new understanding of the Japanese self through her unique use of cultural logic. She begins by presenting and elaborating on two models ("opposition logic" and "contingency logic") to examine concepts of self, Japanese and otherwise. Guided by these, she delves into the three layers of the Japanese self, focusing first on the social layer as located in four "zones"--omote (front), uchi (interior), ura (back), and soto (exterior)--and its shifts from zone to zone. New light is shed on these familiar linguistic and spatial categories by introducing the dimension of civility.
The book expands the discussion in relation to larger constructions of the inner and cosmological self. Unlike the social self, which views itself in relation to the "other," the inner layer involves a reflexivity in which self communicates with self. While the social self engages in dialogue or trialogue, the inner self communicates through monologue or soliloquy. The cosmological layer, which centers around transcendental beliefs and fantasies, is examined and the analysis supplemented with comments on aesthetics. Throughout, Lebra applies her methodology to dozens of Japanese examples and makes relevant comparisons with North American culture and notions of self. Finally, she provides a spirited analysis of critiques of Nihonjinron to reinforce the relevancy of Japanese studies.
This volume is the culmination of decades of thinking on self and social relations by one of the most influential scholars in the field. It will prove highly instructive to Japanese and non-Japanese readers alike in a range of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, and social psychology.
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Jesus in Our Wombs:
Embodying Modernity in a Mexican Convent
by Rebecca J. Lester
University of California Press, April 2005.
ISBN: 0520242688
In Jesus in Our Wombs, Rebecca J. Lester takes us behind the walls of a Roman Catholic convent in central Mexico to explore the lives, training, and experiences of a group of postulants--young women in the first stage of religious training as nuns. Lester, who conducted eighteen months of fieldwork in the convent, provides a rich ethnography of these young women's journeys as they wrestle with doubts, fears, ambitions, and setbacks in their struggle to follow what they believe to be the will of God. Gracefully written, finely textured, and theoretically rigorous, this book considers how these aspiring nuns learn to experience God by cultivating an altered experience of their own female bodies, a transformation they view as a political stance against modernity.
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Look, Listen, Read
Claude Levi-Strauss with Brian Singer (Translator)
Basic Books, 1998.
ISBN: 0465068812
Next year marks the 90th birthday of the venerable French dean of structural anthropologists, but he continues to expand a body of work that started over 40 years ago with Tristes Tropiques. This is a translation of a text that appeared recently in France, on Poussin's paintings, Rameau's music, and Diderot's writing, with many theoretical and personally opinionated asides. There are reminiscences, such as meeting the Surrealist poet Andr Breton on a boat as a refugee in wartime, and somewhat gratuitous insults against Colette for her libretto to Ravel's classic opera L'Enfant et les sortilges. This is a highly personal, often quirky book, in which Levi-Strauss finds allies and precursors in the arts for his own work, such as when he finds Rameau to be "a forerunner of structural analysis." Unfortunately, the book is presented in a rather distorted and paraphrastic translation that loses much of the intelligent edge and personal charm of the original. The translations are sometimes bizarre (as when what is simply a "sextet" is rendered as a "sextuor") and sometimes clumsyfor example, Lvi-Strauss, whose prose style was elegantly influenced by Chateaubriand and Rousseau, would never have described merchants as "wont to mount" camels. This stimulating text could have used better presentation.
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Mesocosm:
Hinduism and the Organization of a Traditional Newar City in Nepal
by Robert I. Levy
University of California Press, 1990.
ISBN: 0520069110
Mesocosm is a study of Hinduism in its most fully realized form as a symbolic system for organizing the life of a particular kind of city--what the author terms an "archaic" city. The work is a detailed description and analysis of the symbolic world of Bhaktapur, a unicultural city in the Kathmandu Valley, a city which is perhaps the last surviving example of a type of organization once widespread in the ancient world. Robert Levy views Bhaktapur as a structured "mesocosm," mediating between the microcosm of individual self-conception and the macrocosm of the culturally conceived larger universe. The city is a bounded entity, grounded on a minutely divided and interrelated sacrilized space. It uses that space, roles assigned by an elaborate caste system, a semantically differentiated pantheon, and the tempos and forms of the festival year and rites of passage to construct a "civic dance," a web of communication and instruction which deeply affects the experience of Bhaktapur's citizens. Levy investigates the meaning of the community to the people who live there and suggests how the religious forms that have challenged Hinduism in South Asia--Christianity and, above all, Islam--are profoundly antithetical to Hinduism as the organizing principle for cities such as Bhaktapur. Mesocosm is a groundbreaking contribution to anthropology, social and religious history, and Indian and Nepalese studies.
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Culture and Identity:
The History,Theory,and Practice of Psychological Anthropology
by Charles Lindholm
McGraw-Hill Higher Education, October 2000.
ISBN: 0070379955
In this first edition text, Lindolm introduces students to the field of psychological anthropology, tracing the growth of the field, interweaving perspectives from anthropology, psychology, and sociology, and applying the insights gained to an understanding of daily life in America. Unlike other texts, Culture and the Self is a coherent essay that deals with questions that are important to the field, includes the study of important theorists previously ignored, and covers contemporary topics such as object relations, identity, emotions, cognition, symbolic systems, idealized relationships, and the psychology of groups.
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Table of Contents
PART 1. Being and Culture
1 Cultural Selves
2 Sociology of the Psycho: Weber and Durkheim
3 Psychology of the Social: Freud
4 The Anthropological Response: Mead, Benedict, Whiting, Hallowell
5 The Sociological Response: Parsons and Goffman
6 The Psychological Rejoinder: Roeim, Reich, Kardiner, Erickson
7 The Turn to Cognitive Psychology: Piaget, Kohlberg, Gilligan
8 Object Relations and Identity Theory: Fairbairn and Kohut
9 Modern Psychological Anthropology: D'Andrade, Schweder, and Spiro
PART 2. Cases
10 Defining the Self
11 Emotion in Context
12 Normal Consciousness and Altered States
13 Sexual Deviance and Transformation
14 Idealization: Falling in Love
15 Charisma: Social Movements and Change
PART 3. Understanding American Character
16 American Character in Context
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Anthropology through a Double Lens:
Public and Personal Worlds in Human Theory
by Daniel Touro Linger
University of Pennsylvania Press, January 2005.
ISBN: 0812238575
The Double Lens develops a sustained critique of culturalist, historicist, and discursivist trends in contemporary anthropology. For all their merits, such approaches diminish important human faculties of agency, consciousness, and reflexivity, and in so doing stunt human theory. The book emphasizes instead the intersections of public worlds of symbols and discourses with personal worlds of experience and consciousness. It demonstrates the power of such an alternative view with studies of meanings, politics, and identities based on field research in São Luís, a state capital in northeastern Brazil, and Toyota City, an industrial hub of central Japan.
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No One Home:
Brazilian Selves Remade in Japan
by Daniel Touro Linger
Stanford University Press, June 2001.
ISBN: 0804741824
The movement of Brazilians of Japanese descent to Japan is one of the most intriguing transnational migrations of recent years. In 1990, seeking a supply of ethnically acceptable unskilled workers, Japan permitted overseas Japanese, along with their spouses and children, to enter the country as long-term residents. The prospect of high salaries eventually drew about 200,000 nikkeis, as Brazilians of Japanese descent often call themselves, to Japan, making them Japan's third-largest minority group.
No One Home is an ethnographic study, based on fieldwork and extensive personal interviews, of nikkeis living in Toyota City. The migrants' dual identities coexist uneasily. The book focuses on how Brazilian factory workers and their children work through the problems arising from their ambiguous status. In Toyota City and environs, Brazilian men and women do hard, dirty, and dangerous physical labor in automobile-parts plants that supply Toyota Motors and other large automobile manufacturers. Japanese schools confront their children with an array of cultural, linguistic, educational, and personal obstacles. In the immediacies of the shop floor, classroom, and their leisure activities, nikkeis remake in Japan selves they had forged as citizens of Brazil, a process that is dynamic, varied, and unpredictable.
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The Good Parsi:
The Fate of a Colonial Elite in a Postcolonial Society
by Tanya M. Luhrmann
Harvard University Press, 1996.
ISBN: 0674356764
The Parsi story is filled with the pathos of their long-delayed recognition of the emptiness of the promise that Parsis might one day be Englishmen. Luhrmann sensitively examines the paradoxical nature of their self-criticism to create an image of a fragile and beleaguered identify, fraught with contradictions, that looks uneasily toward the future.
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Of Two Minds:
The Growing Disorder in American Psychiatry
by Tanya M. Luhrmann
Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
ISBN: 0679421912
In this groundbreaking book, Tanya Luhrmann -- among the most admired of young American anthropologists -- brings her acute intelligence and her sophisticated powers of observation to bear on the world of psychiatry. On the basis of extensive interviews with patients and doctors, as well as day-to-day investigative fieldwork in residency programs, private psychiatric hospitals, and state hospitals, Luhrmann shows us how psychiatrists are trained, how they develop their particular way of seeing and listening to their patients, what makes a psychiatrist successful, and how the enormous ambiguities in the field affect its practitioners and patients.
How do psychiatrists learn to do what they do? What is it like for psychiatrists to deal with people who are in emotional extremity? How does the choice between drug therapy and talk therapy, each of which requires very different skills, affect the way psychiatrists understand their patients? Boldly and with sharp insight, Luhrmann takes the reader into the world of young doctors in training.
At a time when mood-altering drugs have revolutionized the treatment of the mentally ill and HMOs are forcing caregivers to take the pharmacological route, Luhrmann places us at the heart of the struggle -- do we treat people's brains or their minds? -- and allows us to see exactly what is at stake.
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Irregular Connections:
A History of Anthropology and Sexuality
by Andrew P. Lyons and Harriet D. Lyons
University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
ISBN: 080328036X
Irregular Connections traces the anthropological study of sex from the eighteenth century to the present, focusing primarily on social and cultural anthropology and the work done by researchers in North America and Great Britain. Andrew P. and Harriet D. Lyons argue that the sexuality of those whom anthropologists studied has been conscripted into Western discourses about sex, including debates about prostitution, homosexuality, divorce, premarital relations, and hierarchies of gender, class, and race.
Because sex is the most private of activities and often carries a high emotional charge, it is peculiarly difficult to investigate. At times, such as the late 1920s and the last decade of the twentieth century, sexuality has been a central concern of anthropologists and focal in their theoretical formulations. At other times the study of sexuality has been marginalized. The anthropology of sex has sometimes been one of the main faces that anthropology presented to the public, often causing resentment within the discipline.
Irregular Connections discusses several individuals who have played a significant role in the anthropological study of sexuality, including Sir Richard Burton, Havelock Ellis, Edward Westermarck, Bronislaw Malinowski, Margaret Mead, George Devereux, Robert Levy, Gilbert Herdt, Stephen O. Murray, and Esther Newton. Synthesizing a wealth of information from different anthropological traditions, the authors offer a seamless history of the anthropology of sex as it has been practiced and conceptualized in North America and Great Britain.
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Dreaming and the Self
edited by Jeanette Mageo
State University of New York Press, 2003.
ISBN: 0791457885
Drawing upon original fieldwork, cultural theory, and psychological research, Dreaming and the Self offers new approaches to the selfÑparticularly to subjectivity, identity, and emotion. Through an investigation of dreams in various cultures, the contributors explore how people as subjects actually experience cultural life, how they forge identities out of their cultural and historical experiences, how the cultural and historical worlds in which they live shape even their bodily habits and responses, and how the person as agent responds to and imaginatively recreates his or her culture. These essays demonstrate that dreams reflect tellingly on topics of great currency in anthropology, such as how people personally manage postcolonialism, transnationalism, and migration. Actual dreams are examined, including dreams of Samoan young people about race; of a Haitian priestess about vodou deities; of a Pakistani about spiritual teachers; of psychoanalytic clients in Los Angeles and San Diego about cars, witches, and sex; and of a young Balinese mother about a neglected dog.
Contents
Part 1: Overview
1. Theorizing Dreaming and the Self
Jeannette Marie Mageo
2. Subjectivity and Identity in Dreams
Jeannette Marie Mageo
Part 2: Revisioning the Self and Dreams
3. Diasporic Dreaming, Identity, and Self-Constitution
Katherine Pratt Ewing
4. Selfscape Dreams
Douglas Hollan
5. Race, Postcoloniality, and Identity in Samoan Dreams
Jeannette Marie Mageo
6. Memory, Emotion, and the Imaginal Mind
Michele Stephen
Part 3: Self-Revelation and Dream Interpretation
7. Dreams That Speak: Experience and Interpretation
Erika Bourguigno
8. Dream: Ghost of a Tiger, a System of Human Words
Waud H. Kracke
9. The Anthropological Import of Blocked Access to Dream Associations
Melford E. Spiro
10. Concluding Reflections
Vincent Crapanzano
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Power and the Self
SPA Publication No. 13
edited by Jeanette Mageo
Cambridge University Press, 2001.
ISBN: 0521004608
This edited volume deals with an important but neglected topic--the ways in which power is experienced by individuals, as agents as well as objects of the exercise of power. Each contributor presents a series of case studies drawn from a variety of cultural contexts. These include a chapter on the treatment of patients in American nursing homes, the plight of immigrant Turkish women in the Netherlands, and one contribution that relates theories about the capacity to commit genocidal violence to "everyday forms of violence".
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Theorizing Self in Samoa
by Jeannette Marie Mageo
University of Michigan Press, 1998.
ISBN: 0472085182
Anthropologist Jeannette Marie Mageo develops a new theory of the self in culture through a psychological and historical ethnography of Samoa--which provides a unique opportunity to consider the dialectic between historical change and personal experience, and uncovers ways in which cultural history is forever leaving its fingerprints upon human lives. Photos.
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Exploring Borders:
Understanding Culture and Psychology
by Giuseppe Mantovani, forward by Michael Cole
Routledge, 2000.
ISBN: 0415231000
While reading this book, I thought it was accomplishing in its very substance what it was saying with its words. As I expected from a book on culture, it provides examples ranging from western to eastern societies, from contemporary episodes to past ones. The ability to find examples from different fields and to connect them to the central topic makes the point of the tremendous consequentiality of cultural issues. At the same time it refrains from generalizations, highlighting the serious dilemmas in which cultural encounters engage us. It is a committed tour throughout various themes of a cultural perspective in both everyday puzzlements and major events covered in the media. For this reasons and for the style of its writing it comes as a pleasant and compelling reading. The general approach relies on socio-constructionism and cultural psychology, which are part of the very new trends in talking about culture. If you are looking for an introduction to cultural issues in social sciences this book offers a fresh repertoire of relevant cases together with sketched references to some of the among the most appreciated theoretical frameworks in current research.
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Affective Intelligence and Political Judgment
by George E.Marcus, W. Russell Neuman, and Michael MacKuen
Chicago, 2000.
ISBN: 0226504697
Although the rational choice approach toward political behavior has been severely criticized, its adherents claim that competing models have failed to offer a more scientific model of political decisionmaking. This measured but provocative book offers precisely that: an alternative way of understanding political behavior based on cognitive research.
The authors draw on research in neuroscience, physiology, and experimental psychology to conceptualize habit and reason as two mental states that interact in a delicate, highly functional balance controlled by emotion. Applying this approach to more than fifteen years of election results, they shed light on a wide range of political behavior, including party identification, symbolic politics, and negative campaigning.
Remarkably accessible, Affective Intelligence and Political Judgment urges social scientists to move beyond the idealistic notion of the purely rational citizen to form a more complete, realistic model that includes the emotional side of human judgment.
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What's behind the Symptom?:
On Psychiatric Observation and Anthropological Understanding
by Angel Martinez-Hernaez
Gordon & Breach Publishing Group 2000.
ISBN: 9057026120
This book addresses the traditional perception of symptoms and whether they are physical signs of illness or symbolic and cultural forms of expression. The research presented here examines contemporary psychiatric knowledge, medical anthropology, and the fields of psychiatry/psychology to find answers regarding the interpretation of symptoms. This book also offers critical analyses of Freud, Kraepelin, Foucault, Barthes and Peirce, among others, as part of its critical framework
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Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots:
The Narrative Structure of Experience
by Cheryl Mattingly
Cambridge University Press, 1998.
ISBN: 0521639948
There is growing interest in 'therapeutic narratives', stories that help to explain why people need to create stories, and what in the particular structure of clinical practice gives therapists and patients practical reasons for constructing stories with a specific narrative form. This ethnography of the practice of occupational therapy in a North American hospital reveals how participants transform ordinary clinical interchange into a standardized story-line. It is an innovative contribution to anthropological theory.
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Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing
edited by Cheryl Mattingly and Linda C. Garro
University of California Press, 2000.
ISBN: 0520218256
Inspired by the possibilities of narrative, the essays in this direction-setting volume present stories drawn from a range of ethnographic contexts. Stories of illness and healing are often arresting in their power, and they can illuminate aspects of practices and experiences surrounding illness that might otherwise be neglected. Recognizing the value of increased theoretical consciousness among those eliciting and analyzing narratives, these contributors explore narrative from a variety of perspectives.
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Bringing Ritual to Mind:
Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms
Community
by Robert N. McCauley and E. Thomas Lawson
Cambridge University Press, 2002.
ISBN: 0521016290
This study explores the psychological foundations of religious ritual systems. In practice, participants recall rituals to ensure a sense of continuity across performances, and those rituals motivate them to transmit and re-perform them. Most religious rituals exploit either high performance frequency or extraordinary emotional stimulation to enhance their recollection. Robert N. McCauley and E. Thomas Lawson assert that participants' cognitive representations of ritual form explain much about the systems. Reviewing a wide range of evidence, they explain religions' evolution.
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Love and Honor in the Himalayas:
Coming To Know Another Culture
by Ernestine McHugh
University of Pennsylvania Press, May 2001.
ISBN: 0812217594
"A stunning, emotionally charged, intellectually stimulating, and aesthetically crafted fieldwork memoir. This is a book I will teach often, recommend to colleagues, and share with family and friends for its multifaceted delights."
Kirin Narayan, University of Wisconsin, Madison
On a long and winding road from the river below, American anthropologist Ernestine McHugh arrived in the foothills of the Annapurna mountains in Nepal. Surrounded by terraced fields, rushing streams, and rocky paths, she began one of several sojourns among the Gurung people whose ramro hawa-pani (good wind and water) not only describes the enduring bounty of their land but also reflects the climate of goodwill they seek to sustain in their community. It was in their steep Himalayan villages that McHugh came to know another culture, witnessing and learning the Buddhist appreciation for equanimity in moments of precious joy and inevitable sorrow.
Love and Honor in the Himalayas is McHugh's gripping ethnographic memoir based on research among the Gurungs conducted over a span of fourteen years. As she chronicles the events of her fieldwork, she also tells a story that admits feeling and involvement, writing of the people who housed her in the terms in which they cast their relationship with her, that of family. Welcomed to call her host Ama and become a daughter in the household, McHugh engaged in a strong network of kin and friendship. She intimately describes, with a sure sense of comedy and pathos, the family's diverse experiences of life and loss, self and personhood, hope, knowledge, and affection. In mundane as well as dramatic rituals, the Gurungs ever emphasize the importance of love and honor in everyday life, regardless of circumstances, in all human relationships. Such was the lesson learned by McHugh, who arrived a young woman facing her own hardships and came to understand--and experience--the power of their ways of being
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The book chronicles the lives of the family I lived with in Nepal over fourteen years and provides illustrations of local models of relationship, emotion, self and their relation to religion and social organization. Most of the propositions about these are embedded in a narrative that unfolds as a memoir, making it suitable as a basis for explaining some issues in psychological anthropology to non-majors or beginning students, as well as for use as an example in more advanced courses.
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Culture and Psychiatric Diagnosis:
A DSM-IV Perspective
edited by Juan E. Mezzich, Arthur Kleinman, Delores L. Parron, Horacio Fabrega, Jr.
American Psychiatric Press, 1996.
ISBN: 0880485531
Culture and Psychiatric Diagnosis: A DSM-IV Perspective developed from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and American Psychiatric Association's conference on culture and psychiatric diagnosis, which was organized to enhance the cultural validity of DSM-IV. The book features the collaboration of cultural experts, members of the NIMH Culture and Diagnosis Group, nosologists, and members of the DSM-IV Task Force and Work Groups. If clinicians are to become culturally sensitive, they must understand the criteria that define a disorder and consider the cultural framework of the person being examined. Only then can they ascertain whether the criteria are applicable in the present context of the patient and make the adjustments that are appropriate. Culture and Psychiatric Diagnosis: A DSM-IV Perspective will benefit all clinicians who treat culturally diverse patients because it documents and clarifies how cultural factors influence the emergence, manifestations, assessment, and course of mental disorders and response to treatment.
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Sex and Gender Hierarchies
SPA Publication No. 4
by Barbara Diane Miller, ed.
Cambridge University Press, 1993.
ISBN: 0521423686
A generation of feminist research has explored the extent to which the roles - and expectations - of women and men vary across cultures. In this volume, leading anthropologists reflect on the evidence and theories, broadening the conventional field of comparison to include female/male relationships among non-human primates and introducing fresh case studies which range from lemurs to hominids, from Japanese peasants to male strippers in Florida, from skeletal remains of a Korean queen to mother/child conversations in Samoa. They document the rich and often surprising diversity in sex and gender hierarchies among both humans and non-human primates.
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The Couch and the Tree:
Dialogues in Psychoanalysis and Buddhism
edited by Anthony Molino
North Point Press, 1999.
ISBN: 0865475741
A provocative and trailblazing cross-disciplinary anthology. Until this alchemical collection, no book had replaced the 1960 classic Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalyst Anthony Molino offers a bold new alloy of these two major disciplines in a two-part anthology that spans and documents a unique cross-fertilization of Eastern and Western thought. Part One of The Couch and the Tree provides a historical overview of the classic writings in this far-reaching and adventurous dialogue, while Part Two features a series of brilliant contemporary works. Essayists include Adam Phillips, Mark Epstein, Masao Abe, Polly Young-Eisendrath, and Michael Eigen. The uniqueness of both its conception and its scope make this a truly essential volume. Anthony Molino, a psychoanalyst, anthropologist, and award-winning translator of Italian literary works, has edited collections of interviews with prominent psychoanalysts. He lives with his wife and his son in Italy.
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Culture, Subject, Psyche:
Dialogues in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology
edited by Anthony Molino
Wesleyan University Press, 2004.
ISBN: 0819567418
The 20th century was marked by two profoundly different insights into the nature of humanity: one views each person as the product of unconscious desires, while the other sees the individual as the product of language and culture. While many still believe these two insights to be irreconcilable, there are a growing number of scholars attempting to integrate the psychoanalytic subject into their culturally-bound research. In this groundbreaking new work, Anthony Molino has collected in-depth interviews with seven renowned anthropologists and social theorists: MARC AUGÉ, VINCENT CRAPANZANO, KATHERINE EWING, GANANATH OBEYESEKERE, MICHAEL RUSTIN, KATHLEEN STEWART, and PAUL WILLIAMS. These dialogues, alongside essays by Molino, anthropologists WESLEY SHUMAR and WAUD KRACKE, and psychoanalyst LUCIA VILLELA, update the prevailing conceptions of psychoanalysis within anthropology. They explore possible psychoanalytic contributions to ethnographic theory and practice on matters concerning the self, narrative, identity, the unconscious, and fieldwork and power relations.
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Where Id Was: Challenging Normalization in Psychoanalysis
edited by Anthony Molino and Christine Ware
Wesleyan University Press, January 2002.
ISBN: 081956480X
There have been many "returns to Freud," many attempts to recover the first psychoanalyst's radical challenge to the dominant culture of the day. At no time has it been more important than now--when the values of "normalization" pervade not only society but increasingly the consulting room itself--to break through the atrophies of Freudian theory to recapture its early spirit. Many psychoanalysts are doing just that, in an attempt to focus attention on the inherently political dimensions of psychoanalytic culture. Where Id Was brings together some of today's best known psychoanalytic thinkers to present an authoritative analysis of the individual and social concerns which inform the politics of contemporary psychoanalysis.
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Freely Associated:
Encounters in Psychoanalysis with Christopher Bollas, Joyce McDougall, Michael Eigen, Adam Phillips, Nina Coltart
edited by Anthony Molino
New York University Press, 1998.
ISBN: 1853433861
Contents
Introduction
Christopher Bollas
Joyce McDougall
Michael Eigen
Adam Phillips
Nina Coltart
Publisher's Postscript
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The Psychology of Cultural Experience
SPA Publication No. 12
edited by Carmella C. Moore & Holly F. Matthews
Cambridge University Press, available August 2001.
ISBN: 0521005523
The essays in this volume focus upon the relationship of individual experience to culture, and chart a new research agenda for psychological anthropology in the twenty-first century. Drawing upon fieldwork in diverse cultural settings, the authors use a range of contemporary perspectives in the field, including person-centred ethnography, activity theory, attachment theory and cultural schema theory, to describe the ways in which people think, feel, remember, and solve problems. Fascinating insights emerge from these fine-grained accounts of personal experience. The research demonstrates that it is possible to identify cross-cultural universals in psychological development and mental states, and that individual psychology is not determined solely by unique cultural patterns.
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Contents
Introduction: The Psychology of Cultural Experience
Holly F. Mathews and Carmella C. Moore
Beyond the Binary Opposition in Psychological Anthropology
Drew Westen
Developments in Person-centered Ethnography
Douglas Hollan
Activity Theory and Cultural Psychology
Carl Ratner
The Infant's Acquisition of Culture
Robert A. LeVine and Karin Norman
The Remembered Past in a Culturally Meaningful Life
Linda C. Garro
The Psychology of Consensus in a Papua New Guinea Christian Revival Movement
Stephen C. Leavitt
God and Self: The Shaping and Sharing of Experience in a Cooperative, Religious Community
Susan Love Brown
Cross-cultural Studies in Language and Thought: Is There a Metalanguage?
Eve Danziger
Comparative Approaches to Psychological Anthropology
Robert L. Munroe and Ruth H. Munroe
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Mental Territories:
Mapping the Inland Empire
by Katherine G. Morrissey
Cornell University Press, 1997.
ISBN: 0801483263
Rarely recognized outside its boundaries today, the Pacific Northwest region known at the turn of the century as the Inland Empire included portions of the states of Washington and Idaho, as well as British Columbia. Katherine G. Morrissey traces the history of this self-proclaimed region from its origins through its heyday. In doing so, she challenges the characterization of regions as fixed places defined by their geography, economy, and demographics. Regions, she argues, are best understood as mental constructs, internally defined through conflicts and debates among different groups of people seeking to control a particular area's identity and direction. Applying the theoretical works of cultural studies to historical questions, Morrissey interprets the words and actions of railroad magnates, gravediggers, Indians on reservations, promoters, women homesteaders, union organizers, civil leaders, government agents, novelists, farmers, and investors. In the discourses about who belonged and who did not belong to defined communities or regions, residents participated in important representational struggles that had and continue to have significant material consequences.
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Culture, Self, and Meaning
by Victor de Munck
Waveland Press, 2000.
ISBN: 1577661370
In this highly informative and interdisciplinary exploration of the relationship between culture and psyche, de Munck provides a substantive introduction to pertinent issues, theory, and empirical studies that lie at the junction of psychology, sociology, and anthropology. This engagingly written text reviews various approaches to such questions as: Where is culture located--inside or outside the head? What is the self--is there a single, unified self or do many selves inhabit the body? Do institutional structures form to meet our needs--or are our everyday lives a result of institutional structures? What is meaning and how do we study it? de Munck's examination of these different approaches illuminates the importance of the topic, expands readers' understanding of human life, and points to psychological anthropology's relevance in affecting public policies.
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Romantic Love and Sexual Behavior;
Perspectives from the Social Sciences
edited by Victor C. De Munck
Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998.
ISBN: 0275957268
Westerners believe that love makes life worth living; that sex is a natural desire different in kind from love; and that only cynics reduce our love life to a calculation of economic or genetic factors. In this volume, essays explore these and other assumptions about the relationship between romantic love and sex. This represents the first interdisciplinary social science study of love and sex.
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Contents
Sect. I Theory
The Future of Love
Ideologies of Lovestyle and Sexstyle
Love Madness
Sect. II The Psychology of Love and Sexual Desire
Romantic Love and Sexual Desire
Romantic Love and the Psychology of Sexual Behavior: Open and Closed Secrets
Sect. III Evolutionary and Investment Models
Divorce as a Consequence of Spousal Infidelity
Race, Gender, and Romantic Commitment
Romantic Ideals as Comparison Levels: Implications for Satisfaction and Commitment in Romantic Involvements
Sect. IV Aids and Cultural Narratives
Narratives of Love and the Risk of Safer Sex
Contemporary Youths' Negotiations of Romance, Love, Sex, and Sexual Disease
Sect. V Cross-Cultural Studies of Love and Sex
Love and Limerence with Chinese Characteristics: Student Romance in the PRC
Lust, Love, and Arranged Marriages in Sri Lanka
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