A Companion to Psychological Anthropology: Modernity and Psychocultural Change
Conerly Casey
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Description for A Companion to Psychological Anthropology: Modernity and Psychocultural Change
Paperback. This Companion provides the first definitive overview of psycho-cultural anthropology: a subject that focuses on cultural, psychological, and social interrelations across cultures. Editor(s): Casey, Conerly; Edgerton, Robert B. Series: Blackwell Companions to Anthropology. Num Pages: 552 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: JHM; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 171 x 47. Weight in Grams: 936.
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
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
552
Condition
New
Series
Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405162555
SKU
V9781405162555
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99-50
About Conerly Casey
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 ... Read more
Reviews for A Companion to Psychological Anthropology: Modernity and Psychocultural Change
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year "Absolutely without an equal among texts in the field ... this volume (is) particularly user friendly for instructors and readers." Choice "What a wonderful surprise! Having edited, reviewed and contributed to many anthologies, I approached this Companion skeptically ... But the uniformly high quality of the ... Read more