Conerly Casey & Robert B. Edgerton 
A Companion to Psychological Anthropology [PDF ebook] 
Modernity and Psychocultural Change

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

Innehållsförteckning

Synopsis of Contents x

Notes on Contributors xvii

Acknowledgments xxv

Introduction 1

Part I Sensing, Feeling, and Knowing 15

1 Time and Consciousness 17

Kevin Birth

2 An Anthropology of Emotion 30

Charles Lindholm

3 ’Effort After Meaning’ in Everyday Life 48

Linda C. Garro

4 Culture and Learning 72

Patricia M. Greenfield

5 Dreaming in a Global World 90

Douglas Hollan

6 Memory and Modernity 103

Jennifer Cole

Part II Language and Communication 121

7 Narrative Transformations 123

James M. Wilce, Jr.

8 Practical Logic and Autism 140

Elinor Ochs and Olga Solomon

9 Disability: Global Languages and Local Lives 168

Susan Reynolds Whyte

Part III Ambivalence, Alienation, and Belonging 183

10 Identity 185

Daniel T. Linger

11 Self and Other in an ’Amodern’ World 201

A. David Napier

12 Immigrant Identities and Emotion 225

Katherine Pratt Ewing

13 Emotive Institutions 241

Geoffrey M. White

14 Urban Fear of Crime and Violence in Gated Communities
255

Setha M. Low

15 Race: Local Biology and Culture in Mind 274

Atwood D. Gaines

16 Unbound Subjectivities and New Biomedical Technologies
298

Margaret Lock

17 Globalization, Childhood, and Psychological Anthropology
315

Thomas S. Weisner and Edward D. Lowe

18 Drugs and Modernization 337

Michael Winkelman and Keith Bletzer

19 Ritual Practice and Its Discontents 358

Don Seeman

20 Spirit Possession 374

Erika Bourguignon

21 Witchcraft and Sorcery 389

René Devisch

Part IV Aggression, Dominance, and Violence 417

22 Genocide and Modernity 419

Alexander Laban Hinton

23 Corporate Violence 436

Howard F. Stein

24 Political Violence 453

Christopher J. Colvin

25 The Politics of Remorse 469

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Afterword 495

Catherine Lutz

Index 499

Om författaren

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 Po LAR (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).