An Ethnography of Stress

V Burbank

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Mind, and Society
• Health inequality is a global issue. This book examines the problem through an in-depth look at a remote Australian Aboriginal community characterized... Lees meer

American Individualisms

A Kusserow

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Mind, and Society
• What are hard and soft individualisms? In this detailed ethnography of three communities in Manhattan and Queens, Kusserow interviews parents and teac... Lees meer

Afflictions

Robert Lemelson, Annie Tucker

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Mind, and Society
• This book is one of the first to integrate psychological and medical anthropology with the methodologies of visual anthropology, specifically ethnogra... Lees meer

Finding Culture in Talk

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Mind, and Society
• This edited collection presents a range of heretofore unpublished, unavailable methods for the systematic reconstruction of culture from interviews an... Lees meer

American Individualisms

A Kusserow

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Mind, and Society
• What are hard and soft individualisms? In this detailed ethnography of three communities in Manhattan and Queens, Kusserow interviews parents and teac... Lees meer

Autism in Translation

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Mind, and Society
• Autism is a complex phenomenon that is both individual and social. Showing both robust similarities and intriguing differences across cultural context... Lees meer

Filial Obsessions

P Steven Sangren

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Mind, and Society
• This book employs a broad analysis of Chinese patriliny to propose a distinctive theoretical conceptualization of the role of desire in culture. It ut... Lees meer

Becoming Muslim

A Mansson McGinty

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Mind, and Society
• While Islam has become a controversial topic in the West, a growing number of Westerners find powerful meaning in Islam. Becoming Muslim is an ethnogr... Lees meer

Dreaming Culture

J Mageo

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Mind, and Society
• Dreams seem the most private territory of experience. Yet Dreaming Culture argues they are a space in which we practice, consider, question, and adapt... Lees meer

A Cognitive Ethnography of Knowledge and Material Culture

Mads Solberg

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Mind, and Society
• ​This cognitive ethnography examines how scientists create meaning about biological phenomena through experimental practices in the laboratory, offeri... Lees meer

A Study of Personal and Cultural Values

R D'Andrade

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Mind, and Society
• This study analyzes American, Vietnamese and Japanese personal values, attempting to understand how it can be ethnographers find large differences in ... Lees meer

The Cultural Context of Emotion

K Heider

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Mind, and Society
• Based on the author's second stage of research on emotions of the matrilineal Moslem Minangkabau of West Sumatra, Indonesia, this book is a continuati... Lees meer

Narrative Practice and Cultural Change

Steven Grant Carlisle

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Mind, and Society
• This book presents a unique approach to person-centered anthropology, providing a new form of practice theory that incorporates and explains sources o... Lees meer

The Making and Meaning of Relationships in Sri Lanka

Mihirini Sirisena

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Mind, and Society
• This book proposes that romantic relationships-filtered through various socio-cultural sieves-can lead to the development of affective kin bonds, whic... Lees meer

Violent Reverberations

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Mind, and Society
• The contributions to this volume map the surprisingly multifarious circumstances in which trauma is invoked - as an analytical tool, a therapeutic ter... Lees meer

She Speaks Her Anger: Myths and Conversations of Gimi Women

Gillian Gillison

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Mind, and Society
• 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 Hi... Lees meer

A Cognitive Ethnography of Knowledge and Material Culture

Mads Solberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Mind, and Society
• ​This cognitive ethnography examines how scientists create meaning about biological phenomena through experimental practices in the laboratory, offeri... Lees meer

Dreaming Culture

J Mageo

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Mind, and Society
• Dreams seem the most private territory of experience. Yet Dreaming Culture argues they are a space in which we practice, consider, question, and adapt... Lees meer

Violent Reverberations

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Mind, and Society
• The contributions to this volume map the surprisingly multifarious circumstances in which trauma is invoked - as an analytical tool, a therapeutic ter... Lees meer

Cognition in and Out of the Mind

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Mind, and Society
• This edited collection presents an agenda for the interdisciplinary study of anthropology and cognitive science. It consists of fifteen chapters writt... Lees meer

Subjectivity and Suffering in American Culture

S Parish

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Mind, and Society
• Winner ofThe Boyer Prize from the Society for Psychological Anthropology!!! This book explores the experience of suffering in order to shed light on t... Lees meer

Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche

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• Rapid industrialization, urbanization, and marketization have led to startling social changes in reform-era China. Mindful of the many forms of social... Lees meer

Political Sentiments and Social Movements

• Hardcover | Engels | Culture, Mind, and Society
• This unique volume is about how ordinary people construct political meanings, form political emotions and identities, and become involved in or diseng... Lees meer

Widening the Frame with Visual Psychological Anthropology

Robert Lemelson, Annie Tucker

• Paperback | Engels | Culture, Mind, and Society
• This book uses visual psychological anthropology to explore trauma, gendered violence, and stigma through a discussion of three ethnographic films set... Lees meer