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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
Synopsis of Contents x
Notes on Contributors xvii
Acknowledgments xxv
Introduction 1
Part I Sensing, Feeling, and Knowing 15
1 Time and Consciousness 17
Kevin Birth
2 An Anthropology of Emotion 30
Charles Lindholm
3 Effort After Meaning in Everyday Life 48
Linda C. Garro
4 Culture and Learning 72
Patricia M. Greenfield
5 Dreaming in a Global World 90
Douglas Hollan
6 Memory and Modernity 103
Jennifer Cole
Part II Language and Communication 121
7 Narrative Transformations 123
James M. Wilce, Jr.
8 Practical Logic and Autism 140
Elinor Ochs and Olga Solomon
9 Disability: Global Languages and Local Lives 168lă(
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