Companion to Psychological Anthropology

Conerly Casey is Assistant Professor in the anthropology and psychology programs at the American University of Kuwait. Based on research with Muslim Hausa youths in northern Nigeria, she has published several articles and book chapters about the politics of identity and citizenship, media and mediated emotion, and violence, including 'Suffering and the Identification of Enemies in Northern Nigeria' in PoLAR (1998) and 'Mediated Hostility: Media, "Affective Citizenships" and Genocide in Northern Nigeria' in Genocide, Truth and Representation: Anthropological Approaches (2007), co-edited by Alexander Laban Hinton and Kevin O'Neill. Robert B. Edgerton is a University Scholar and Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a past president of the Society for Psychological Anthropology and has published a number of books in the field, including Rules, Exceptions, and Social Order (1985), Sick Societies (1992), and Warrior Women (2000).

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• Synopsis of Contents x Notes on Contributors xviiAcknowledgments xxvIntroduction 1Part I Sensing, Feeling, and Knowing 151 Time and Consciousness 17Kevin Birth2 An Anthropology of Emotion 30Charles Lindholm3 "Effort After Meaning" in Everyday Life 48Linda C. Garro4 Culture and Learning 72Patricia M. Greenfield5 Dreaming in a Global World 90Douglas Hollan6 Memory and Modernity 103Jennifer ColePart II Language and Communication 1217 Narrative Transformations 123James M. Wilce, Jr.8 Practical Logic and Autism 140Elinor Ochs and Olga Solomon9 Disability: Global Languages and Local Lives 168Susan Reynolds WhytePart III Ambivalence, Alienation, and Belonging 18310 Identity 185Daniel T. Linger11 Self and Other in an "Amodern" World 201A. David Napier12 Immigrant Identities and Emotion 225Katherine Pratt Ewing13 Emotive Institutions 241Geoffrey M. White14 Urban Fear of Crime and Violence in Gated Communities 255Setha M. Low15 Race: Local Biology and Culture in Mind 274Atwood D. Gaines16 Unbound Subjectivities and New Biomedical Technologies 298Margaret Lock17 Globalization, Childhood, and Psychological Anthropology 315Thomas S. Weisner and Edward D. Lowe18 Drugs and Modernization 337Michael Winkelman and Keith Bletzer19 Ritual Practice and Its Discontents 358Don Seeman20 Spirit Possession 374Erika Bourguignon21 Witchcraft and Sorcery 389René DevischPart IV Aggression, Dominance, and Violence 41722 Genocide and Modernity 419Alexander Laban Hinton23 Corporate Violence 436Howard F. Stein24 Political Violence 453Christopher J. Colvin25 The Politics of Remorse 469Nancy Scheper-HughesAfterword 495Catherine LutzIndex 499