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A Companion to Psychological Anthropology: Modernity and Psychocultural Change
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Description for A Companion to Psychological Anthropology: Modernity and Psychocultural Change
Hardback. 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, 7 figures, 8 figures, 2halftones. BIC Classification: JHMC; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 177 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1098.
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
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
552
Condition
New
Series
Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
Number of Pages
548
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631225973
SKU
V9780631225973
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99-50
About 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 "This ambitious volume argues for the relevance and necessity for psychocultural perspectives for understanding globalization and its discontents.... I can not do justice here to the intriguing examples, case studies, and discussions of methodologies drawn from the authors' own research that make these essays grounded and engaging reading." (Anthropos, 2009) ... Read more