The Cambridge Handbook of Psychological Anthropology
The Cambridge Handbook of Psychological Anthropology
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Bringing together contributions from a global team of renowned scholars, this Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the dynamic field of psychological anthropology. It is divided into five parts and includes a critical updating of the theoretical foundations for psychological anthropology, covering cognitive, psychodynamic, linguistic, and phenomenological views. It provides the first-ever lifespan perspective on human development in culture from the perspective of anthropology and also contains sections that connect the biological dynamics involved in human experience through to social, cultural, and historical perspectives. It considers important political-economic concerns for psychocultural studies, including Indigenous perspectives and expert voices from the global south. By showing how researchers can break out of the disciplinary silos that separate important fields in the human sciences, like anthropology and psychology, it emphasizes the importance of working collaboratively together in order to enrich our understanding of the human condition.
- Provides an up-to-date review of theoretical innovations in the field of psychological anthropology
- Includes the first-of-its-kind overview of methods used in the field, including new multi-modal or visual methods
- Includes important contributions from Indigenous scholars and researchers from the global south
Product details
- Published: October 2025
- Format: Adobe eBook Reader
- ISBN: 9781009028066
- Length: 0 pages
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Table of Contents
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Contributors
- 1. Psychological anthropology in its second century Edward Lowe
- Part I. Theoretical Foundations:
- 2. Cognitive foundations and cultural models: the mental life of culture Giovanni Bennardo
- 3. Linguistic and narrative-based foundations Benjamin Smith, Elise Berman and Nadxieli Toledo Bustamante
- 4. Phenomenological foundations Devin Flaherty
- 5. Psychoanalytic foundations of psychological anthropology Andrea Chiovenda
- Part II. Methodological Innovations:
- 6. Mixed methods in psychological anthropology M. Cameron Hay and Thomas S. Weisner
- 7. Methods in cognitive anthropology Victor C. de Munck
- 8. Person-centered ethnography: exploring complex personhood Douglas Hollan
- 9. Visual psychological anthropology Robert Lemelson and Annie Tucker
- Part III. Lifespan Development in Diverse Socio-Cultural Contexts:
- 10. Social transformations during infancy: contributions through a crisis-oriented lens Marjorie Murray and Gilda Morelli
- 11. Childhood Ashley Maynard
- 12. Adolescence and youth Katie Rose Hejtmanek
- 13. Parenting: the perspective from psychological anthropology Jill E. Korbin, Bridget M. Haas and Thomas S. Weisner
- 14. Aging and senescence Victoria Kumala Sakti
- 15. Dying and an afterlife Annemarie Samuels
- Part IV. Body, Emotion, Self and Experience:
- 16. Steps toward an interdisciplinary anthropology of mind and emotion: Intersections between evolutionary and psychological anthropologies Theodore Samore and Daniel M.T. Fessler
- 17. Biological systems and embodiment of the social world Rebecca Seligman and Maddalena Canna
- 18. Neuroanthropology Breanne Casper, Greg Downey and Daniel Lende
- 19. Emotion and affect: a process-oriented perspective Birgitt Röttger-Rössler
- 20. Psychological anthropology and the moral/ethical turn Aidan Seale-Feldman
- 21. Self and experience Peter Stromberg
- Part V. Post-Colonial and Political Economic Interventions:
- 22. The psychological anthropology of mental health and psychiatric treatment Jocelyn Lim Chua and Julio Villa-Palomino
- 23. Psychological anthropology and native American peoples: recent ethnographic and indigenous scholarship on psychosocial wellbeing William E. Hartmann and Joseph P. Gone
- 24. Children in social change: socialization and the shifting contexts of childhood Bambi Chapin and Jing Xu
- 25. Studies of material hardship in psychological anthropology Claudia Strauss and Edward Lowe
- 26. Ethnography, experience and coming of age at the margins Thomas Stodulka.
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