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  • An Imperative to Cure

    Principles and Practice of Q'eqchi' Maya Medicine in Belize

    by James B. Waldram ...
    James B. Waldram’s groundbreaking study, An Imperative to Cure: Principles and Practice of Q’eqchi’ Maya Medicine in Belize, explores how our understanding of Indigenous therapeutics changes if we view them as forms of “medicine” instead of “healing.” Bringing an innovative methodological approach based on fifteen years of ethnographic research, Waldram argues that Q’eqchi’ medical practitioners ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Hound Pound Narrative

    Sexual Offender Habilitation and the Anthropology of Therapeutic Intervention

    by James B Waldram ...
    This is a detailed ethnographic study of a therapeutic prison unit in Canada for the treatment of sexual offenders. Utilizing extensive interviews and participant-observation over an eighteen month period of field work, the author takes the reader into the depths of what prison inmates commonly refer to as the "hound pound." James Waldram provides a rich and powerful glimpse into the lives and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • Healing Logics

    Culture and Medicine in Modern Health Belief Systems

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  • Culture and Health

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  • Big Dreams

    The Science of Dreaming and the Origins of Religion

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  • Mental Disorder

    Anthropological Insights

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    This brief book introduces the ways in which contemporary anthropology engages with the "psych" disciplines: psychology, psychiatry, and medicine. Khan also widens the conversation by including the perspectives of epidemiologists, addiction and legal experts, journalists, filmmakers, activists, patients, and sufferers. New approaches to mental illness are situated in the context of historical, ... Read more

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  • Biosocial Becomings

    Integrating Social and Biological Anthropology

    Edited by Tim Ingold, Gisli Palsson ...
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  • The Anthropology of Health and Healing

    by Mari Womack ...
    The Anthropology of Health and Healing provides the first holistic approach to the study of medical anthropology. Over the past two decades, medical anthropology has been the most rapidly growing subfield in anthropology, and a number of medial anthropology texts have been published, focusing primarily on public policy and health care delivery systems. Yet while Anthropologists have researched ... Read more

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  • Culture, Health and Illness

    An Introduction for Health Professionals

    by Cecil G. Helman ...
    Culture, Health and Illness: An Introduction for Health Professionals, Second edition discusses the fundamentals of medical anthropology. The book is comprised of 12 chapters that present both the theoretical framework and case histories relevant to the topic. The coverage of the text includes the relationship of culture to various health related concepts, such as pain, pharmacology, stress, and ... Read more

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  • The Encultured Brain

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    This academic article, written at Colorado State University in the fall of 2013 for an Ethnopsychiatry course, reveals how vocal tone - "prosody" - is affected by acculturation to particular musical scales, and how a lack of exposure to or affinity for foreign music can crucially affect intercultural interaction and even psychiatric health of immigrants and international students. It concludes ... Read more

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