A Companion to Psychological Anthropology: Modernity and Psychocultural Change

A Companion to Psychological Anthropology......Page 5
Contents......Page 9
Synopsis of Contents......Page 12
Notes on Contributors......Page 19
Acknowledgments......Page 27
Introduction......Page 29
Part I Sensing, Feeling, and Knowing......Page 43
1 Time and Consciousness......Page 45
2 An Anthropology of Emotion......Page 58
3 “Effort After Meaning” in Everyday Life......Page 76
4 Culture and Learning......Page 100
5 Dreaming in a Global World......Page 118
6 Memory and Modernity......Page 131
Part II Language and Communication......Page 149
7 Narrative Transformations......Page 151
8 Practical Logic and Autism......Page 168
9 Disability: Global Languages and Local Lives......Page 196
Part III Ambivalence, Alienation, and Belonging......Page 211
10 Identity......Page 213
11 Self and Other in an “Amodern” World......Page 229
12 Immigrant Identities and Emotion......Page 253
13 Emotive Institutions......Page 269
14 Urban Fear of Crime and Violence in Gated Communities......Page 283
15 Race: Local Biology and Culture in Mind......Page 302
16 Unbound Subjectivities and New Biomedical Technologies......Page 326
17 Globalization, Childhood, and Psychological Anthropology......Page 343
18 Drugs and Modernization......Page 365
19 Ritual Practice and Its Discontents......Page 386
20 Spirit Possession......Page 402
21 Witchcraft and Sorcery......Page 417
Part IV Aggression, Dominance, and Violence......Page 445
22 Genocide and Modernity......Page 447
23 Corporate Violence......Page 464
24 Political Violence......Page 481
25 The Politics of Remorse......Page 497
Afterword......Page 523
Index......Page 527