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Anthropology of Love and Angerby Joanna Overing; Alan Passes
Routledge 2000; US$ 45.95Questions the very foundations of western sociological thought. A fascinating work that contains case studies from across South America and discussions on topics such as the efficacy of laughter. more...
Anthropology and Psychoanalysisby Suzette Heald; Ariane Deluz
Routledge 1994; US$ 55.95This book examines the interface between these two disciplines, locating its historical context and investigating the distinctive reactions of British, French and American anthropology to the role of the unconscious in cultural life. more...
Culture in Psychologyby Corinne Squire
Routledge 2000; US$ 32.50Presents work from within the developing framework of cultural psychology. Three sections explore the meanings of social categories, the interaction between written and visual representations and the conscious & unconscious meanings of cultural forms more...
Daughters of Haritiby Geoffrey Samuel; Santi Rozario
Routledge 2002; US$ 143.00Is Western medical technology necessarily a good thing, or can it be dangerous? This book investigates its impact on midwives, healers and mothers giving birth in India today. more...
Questions of Consciousnessby Anthony P. Cohen; Nigel Rapport
Routledge 1995; US$ 44.95This book explores the importance of the concious self, and of the `conscious collectively', in the construction and interpretation of social relations and process. more...
Bringing Ritual to Mindby Robert N. McCauley; E. Thomas Lawson
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 25.00Bringing Ritual to Mind explores the psychological foundations of religious rituals. Religious rituals exploit either high performance frequency or extraordinary emotional stimulation (but not both) to enhance recollection. McCauley and Lawson use a wide range of evidence to argue that the explanation lies in participants' cognitive representations of ritual form. more...
Culture and the Sensesby Kathryn Linn Geurts
University of California Press 2002; US$ 15.95Adding her stimulating and finely framed ethnography to recent work in the anthropology of the senses, Kathryn Geurts investigates the cultural meaning system and resulting sensorium of Anlo-Ewe-speaking people in southeastern Ghana. Geurts discovered that the five-senses model has little relevance in Anlo culture, where balance is a sense, and balancing (in a physical and psychological sense as well as in literal and metaphorical ways) is an essential component of what it means to be human. Much of perception falls into an Anlo category of seselelame (literally feel-feel-at-flesh-inside), in which what might be considered sensory input, including the Western sixth-sense notion of "intuition," comes from bodily feeling and the interior milieu.... more...
Death, Mourning, and Burialby Antonius C. G. M. Robben
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2009; US$ 114.95In Death, Mourning, and Burial , an indispensable introduction to the anthropology of death, readers will find a rich selection of some of the finest ethnographic work on this fascinating topic. Comprised of six sections that mirror the social trajectory of death: conceptualizations of death; death and dying; uncommon death; grief and mourning; mortuary rituals; and remembrance and regeneration Includes canonical readings as well as recent studies on topics such as organ donation and cannibalism Designed for anyone concerned with issues of death and dying, as well as: violence, terrorism, war, state terror, organ theft, and mortuary rituals Serves as a text for anthropology classes, as well as providing a genuinely cross-cultural perspective... more...
The Psychology of Culture Shockby A Ward Colleen; Stephen Bochner; Adrian Furnham
Routledge 2001; US$ 39.95Incorporates over a decade of new research and material on coping with the causes and consequences that instigate Culture Shock, which can occur when a person is transported from a familiar to an alien culture. more...
The Handbook of Culture and Psychologyby David Matsumoto
Oxford University Press 2001; US$ 49.95In Crossing Paths, John Daverio explores the connections between art and life in the works of three giants of musical romanticism. Drawing on contemporary critical theory and a wide variety of nineteenth-century sources, he considers topics including Schubert and Schumann's uncanny ability to evoke memory in music, the supposed cryptographic practices of Schumann and Brahms, and the allure of the Hungarian Gypsy style for Brahms and others in the Schumann circle. The book offers a fresh perspective on the music of these composers, including a comprehensive discussion of the 19th century practice of cryptogtraphy, a debunking of the myth that Schumann and Brahms planted codes for "Clara Schumann" throughout their works, and attention to the... more...