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  • Widening the Frame with Visual Psychological Anthropology

    Perspectives on Trauma, Gendered Violence, and Stigma in Indonesia

    by Robert Lemelson, Annie Tucker ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book uses visual psychological anthropology to explore trauma, gendered violence, and stigma through a discussion of three ethnographic films set in Indonesia: 40 Years of Silence (Lemelson 2009), Bitter Honey (Lemelson 2015), and Standing on the Edge of a Thorn (Lemelson 2012). This exploration “widens the frame” in two senses. First, it offers an integrative analysis that connects the ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Culture, Mind, and Brain

    Emerging Concepts, Models, and Applications

    Edited by Laurence J. Kirmayer, Carol M. Worthman, Shinobu Kitayama, Robert Lemelson, Constance A. Cummings ...
    Series series Current Perspectives in Social and Behavioral Sciences
    Recent neuroscience research makes it clear that human biology is cultural biology - we develop and live our lives in socially constructed worlds that vary widely in their structure values, and institutions. This integrative volume brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from the human, social, and biological sciences to explore culture, mind, and brain interactions and their impact on ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Afflictions

    Steps Toward a Visual Psychological Anthropology

    by Robert Lemelson, Annie Tucker ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book is one of the first to integrate psychological and medical anthropology with the methodologies of visual anthropology, specifically ethnographic film. It discusses and complements the work presented in Afflictions: Culture and Mental Illness in Indonesia, the first film series on psychiatric disorders in the developing world, in order to explore pertinent issues in the cross-cultural ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Re-Visioning Psychiatry

    Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and Global Mental Health

    Edited by Laurence J. Kirmayer, Robert Lemelson, Constance A. Cummings ...
    Re-Visioning Psychiatry explores new theories and models from cultural psychiatry and psychology, philosophy, neuroscience and anthropology that clarify how mental health problems emerge in specific contexts and points toward future integration of these perspectives. Taken together, the contributions point to the need for fundamental shifts in psychiatric theory and practice: • Restoring ... Read more

    $57.39 USD

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  • Anti-Discriminatory Practice in Counselling & Psychotherapy

    Edited by Barbara Smith, Colin Lago ...
    Series series Professional Skills for Counsellors Series
    Anti-Discriminatory Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy is a groundbreaking text which identifies the ease with which individuals can be disadvantaged merely on the basis of their gender, race, culture, age, sexuality or ability. Examining these and other areas of discrimination, leading experts highlight how vital it is for counsellors, psychotherapists - and others in the helping ... Read more

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  • The Routledge International Handbook of Mad Studies

    Edited by Peter Beresford, Jasna Russo ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    By drawing broadly on international thinking and experience, this book offers a critical exploration of Mad Studies and advances its theory and practice.Comprised of 34 chapters written by international leading experts, activists and academics, this handbook introduces and advances Mad Studies, as well as exploring resistance and criticism, and clarifying its history, ideas, what it is, and what ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Global Intercultural Communication Reader

    Edited by Molefi Kete Asante, Yoshitaka Miike, Jing Yin ...
    The Global Intercultural Communication Reader is the first anthology to take a distinctly non-Eurocentric approach to the study of culture and communication. In this expanded second edition, editors Molefi Kete Asante, Yoshitaka Miike, and Jing Yin bring together thirty-two essential readings for students of cross-cultural, intercultural, and international communication. This stand-out collection ... Read more

    $120.99 USD

  • Mental Disorder

    Anthropological Insights

    by Nichola Khan ...
    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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  • The Ritual Animal

    Imitation and Cohesion in the Evolution of Social Complexity

    by Harvey Whitehouse ...
    A radical exploration of how rituals have influenced history over thousands of years. From infancy, we copy those around us in order to be like others, to be one with the tribe. Other primates will copy behaviour that leads to transparent benefits, such as access to food, but only humans promiscuously copy actions that have no obvious instrumental purpose. The copying of causally opaque behaviour ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Handbook of Autoethnography

    Edited by Tony E. Adams, Stacy Holman Jones, Carolyn Ellis ...
    Awards2023 H.L. “Bud” Goodall, Jr. and Nick Trujillo “It’s a Way of Life” Award in Narrative Ethnography from the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.“Meditations on the Story I Cannot Write: Reflexivity, Autoethnography, and the Possibilities of Maybe,” received the 2023 National Communication Association's Ethnography Division Best Book Chapter Award.The second edition of the award ... Read more

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  • Ghostly Desires

    Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema

    by Arnika Fuhrmann ...
    Through an examination of post-1997 Thai cinema and video art Arnika Fuhrmann shows how vernacular Buddhist tenets, stories, and images combine with sexual politics in figuring current struggles over notions of personhood, sexuality, and collective life. The drama, horror, heritage, and experimental art films she analyzes draw on Buddhist-informed conceptions of impermanence and prominently ... Read more

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