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  •  
    825,95 kr.

    Rapid industrialization, urbanization, and marketization have led to startling social changes in reform-era China. Mindful of the many forms of social theory that relate modernity to individualism, this volume addresses social and cultural change through the lens of psychological anthropology.

  • af Jeannette Marie Mageo
    1.004,95 kr.

    Based on over a decade of research, this book connects dream studies to cognitive anthropology, to perspectives in the humanities on mimesis, ambiguity, and metaphor, to current dream research in psychology, and to recent work in economic and political relations. Traveling the dreamscapes of a variety of young people, Mimesis and the Dream explores their encounters with American cultures and the identities that derive from these encounters. While ethnographies typically concern shared social habits and practices, this book concerns shared aspects of subjectivity and how people represent and think about them in dreams. Each chapter grounds theory in actual cases. It will be compelling to scholars in multiple disciplines and illustrates how dreaming offers insights into twenty-first century debates and problems within these disciplines, bringing a vital theoretically eclectic approach to dream studies.

  • - Steps Toward a Visual Psychological Anthropology
    af Robert Lemelson & Annie Tucker
    786,95 - 1.479,95 kr.

  • - Chinese Patriliny and Its Discontents
    af P. Steven Sangren
    1.009,95 - 1.017,95 kr.

    Unlike most earlier studies which approach Chinese patriliny and filial piety as irreducible markers of cultural difference, Sangren argues that Chinese patriliny is better approached as a topic of critical inquiry in its own right.

  • - The Alienations of Murik Men in a Papua New Guinea Modernity
    af David Lipset
    306,95 - 1.243,95 kr.

    He also borrows from Lacanian psychoanalysis in discussing how men's dialogue of dual alienation appears in folk theater, in material substitutions-most notably, in the replacement of outrigger canoes by fiberglass boats-as well as in rising sea-levels, and the looming possibility of resettlement.

  • - Global Modalities of Trauma
     
    1.456,95 kr.

    The contributions to this volume map the surprisingly multifarious circumstances in which trauma is invoked ¿ as an analytical tool, a therapeutic term or as a discursive trope. By doing so, we critically engage the far too often individuating aspects of trauma, as well as the assumption of a universal somatic that is globally applicable to contexts of human suffering. The volume takes the reader on a journey across widely differing terrains: from Norwegian institutions for psychiatric patients to the post-war emergence of speech genres on violence in Mozambique, from Greek and Cameroonian ritual and carnivalesque treatments of historical trauma to national discourses of political assassinations in Argentina, the volume provides an empirically founded anti-dote against claiming a universal ¿empire of traumä (Didier Fassin) or seeing the trauma as successfully defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Instead, the work critically evaluates and engages whether the term¿s dual plasticity and endurance captures, encompasses or challenges legacies and imprints of multiple forms of violence.

  • - Anthropological Perspectives
     
    734,95 kr.

    Although humans slumber for approximately one third of our lives, sleep itself is vastly understudied. This volume provides a comparative frame through which we can understand the myriad ways in which sleep reflects and embodies culture as contributors examine aspects of sleep in various countries and contexts.

  •  
    671,95 kr.

    Rapid industrialization, urbanization, and marketization have led to startling social changes in reform-era China. Mindful of the many forms of social theory that relate modernity to individualism, this volume addresses social and cultural change through the lens of psychological anthropology.

  • - A Collection of Methods
     
    629,95 kr.

    unlike approaches to discourse analysis from linguistics, this volume focuses on culture, treating discourse as a medium especially rich in clues for cultural analysis, and hence a window into culture.

  • - An Ethnography of African American Men in Psychiatric Custody
    af Katie Rose Hejtmanek
    1.063,95 kr.

    Friendship, Love, and Hip Hop investigates how young Black men live and change inside a mental institution in contemporary America. While the youth in Hejtmanek's study face the rigidity of institutionalized life, they also productively maneuver through what the author analyzes as the 'give' - friendship, love, and hip hop - in the system.

  • - A Collection of Methods
     
    825,95 kr.

    unlike approaches to discourse analysis from linguistics, this volume focuses on culture, treating discourse as a medium especially rich in clues for cultural analysis, and hence a window into culture.

  • - An Ethnographic Approach
     
    565,95 kr.

    The question of ignorance occupies a central place in anthropological theory and practice. Ultimately, The Anthropology of Ignorance asks whether an academic commitment to knowledge can be squared with lived significance of ignorance and how taking it seriously might alter anthropological research practices.

  • - Child Rearing and Social Class in Three Neighborhoods
    af A. Kusserow
    575,95 kr.

    It presents American individualism not as one single homogeneous, stereotypic life-pattern as often claimed to be, but as variable, class-differentiated models of individualism instilled in young children by their parents and preschool teachers in Manhattan and Queens.

  • - Shifting Identities in Fiji
    af Karen J. Brison
    706,95 - 797,95 kr.

    Class-based self-perception is a rising issue worldwide. Through observation in kindergartens in Fiji, Brison examines how schools instil these ideas in Suva children. Teachers have different goals depending on the social background of the families while students create friendships through shared experience of toys, gender roles, and mass media.

  • - Cultural Perspectives on a Western Theory
     
    616,95 kr.

    Since the 1950s, the study of early attachment and separation has been dominated by a school of psychology that is Euro-American in its theoretical assumptions. Based on ethnographic studies in a range of locales, this book goes beyond prior efforts to critique attachment theory, providing a cross-cultural basis for understanding human development.

  • - Cultural Perspectives on a Western Theory
     
    1.063,95 kr.

    Since the 1950s, the study of early attachment and separation has been dominated by a school of psychology that is Euro-American in its theoretical assumptions. Based on ethnographic studies in a range of locales, this book goes beyond prior efforts to critique attachment theory, providing a cross-cultural basis for understanding human development.

  •  
    1.590,95 kr.

    This edited volume provides a long-overdue synthesis of the current directions in culture theory and represents some of the very best in ongoing research.

  • - An Ethnographic Approach
     
    737,95 kr.

    The question of ignorance occupies a central place in anthropological theory and practice. Ultimately, The Anthropology of Ignorance asks whether an academic commitment to knowledge can be squared with lived significance of ignorance and how taking it seriously might alter anthropological research practices.

  • - Anthropological Perspectives
     
    734,95 kr.

    Although humans slumber for approximately one third of our lives, sleep itself is vastly understudied. This volume provides a comparative frame through which we can understand the myriad ways in which sleep reflects and embodies culture as contributors examine aspects of sleep in various countries and contexts.

  • - The Social Determinants of Health in Aboriginal Australia
    af Victoria Katherine Burbank
    1.094,95 - 1.100,95 kr.

    While this analysis implicates structures and processes of inequality in the genesis of ill health, its focus remains on the people who suffer, grieve, and live with the dilemmas of an intercultural life.

  • - Immoral Individualism
    af Elizabeth A. Throop
    715,95 - 880,95 kr.

    A lively indictment of American culture's pervasive use of the psychotherapeutic metaphor to explain behaviours, a habit that has crossed the Atlantic in recent years, arguing that psychotherapy and excessive individualism has only ensured the continuance of social problems.

  • - American, Japanese, and Vietnamese
    af Roy G. D'Andrade
    748,95 - 781,95 kr.

    This study analyzes American, Vietnamese and Japanese personal values, attempting to understand how it can be ethnographers find large differences in values between cultures, yet empirical surveys find relatively small, almost trivial differences in personal values between cultures.

  • - Western Women's Conversions to Islam
    af A. Mansson McGinty
    715,95 kr.

    While Islam has become a controversial topic in the West, a growing number of Westerners find powerful meaning in Islam. Becoming Muslim is an ethnographic study based on in-depth interviews with Swedish and American women who have converted to Islam.

  • - Western Women's Conversions to Islam
    af A. Mansson McGinty
    605,95 kr.

    While Islam has become a controversial topic in the West, a growing number of Westerners find powerful meaning in Islam. Becoming Muslim is an ethnographic study based on in-depth interviews with Swedish and American women who have converted to Islam.

  • - Embodiment and Transformation in an Afro-Brazilian Religion
    af Rebecca Seligman
    1.093,95 - 1.099,95 kr.

    Spirit possession involves the displacement of a human's conscious self by a powerful other who temporarily occupies the human's body. Here, Seligman shows that spirit possession represents a site for understanding fundamental aspects of human experience, especially those involved with interactions among meaning, embodiment, and subjectivity.

  •  
    1.103,95 kr.

    This edited volume provides a long-overdue synthesis of the current directions in culture theory and represents some of the very best in ongoing research.

  • - An Intercultural Conversation on Autism Spectrum Conditions
     
    1.680,95 kr.

    So, in 2015, a group of interdisciplinary scholars gathered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for an intellectual experiment: a workshop that joined approaches from psychological anthropology to the South American tradition of Collective Health in order to consider autism within social, historical, and political settings.

  • - How Things Shape Temporality
    af Kevin K. Birth
    854,95 - 1.007,95 kr.

    This is a book about time, but it is also about much more than time-it is about how the objects we use to think about time shape our thoughts. Because time ties together so many aspects of our lives, this book is able to explore the nexus of objects, cognition, culture, and even biology, and to do so in relationship to globalization.

  • - The Person in Politics and Culture
     
    1.198,95 kr.

    This unique volume is about how ordinary people construct political meanings, form political emotions and identities, and become involved in or disengaged from political contests.

  • - A Psychological Ethnography in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea
    af Gillian Gillison
    1.203,95 kr.

    Taking a novel approach that adapts Freud's theory of the Primal Crime, this book examines a wealth of ethnographic data on the Gimi of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, focusing on women's lives, myths, and rituals.