The Cambridge Handbook of Psychological Anthropology

Edward Lowe is Professor of Anthropology, Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Soka University of America. His notable publications include Comparing Cultures (co-edited with Schnegg, 2020) and Making It Work (with Yoshikawa and Weisner, 2005).

• 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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