A companion to psychological anthropology : modernity and psychocultural change / edited by Conerly Casey and Robert B. Edgerton.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Time and consciousness / Kevin Birth -- An anthropology of emotion / Charles Lindholm --'Effort after meaning' in everyday life / Linda C. Garro -- Culture and learning / Patricia M. Greenfield -- Dreaming in a global world / Douglas Hollan -- Memory and modernity / Jennifer Cole -- Narrative transformations / James M. Wilce, Jr. -- Practical logic and autism / Elinor Ochs and Olga Solomon -- Disability : global languages and local lives / Susan Reynolds Whyte -- Identity / Daniel T. Linger -- Self and other in an'amodern' world / A. David Napier -- Immigrant identities and emotion / Katherine Pratt Ewing -- Emotive institutions / Geoffrey M. White -- Urban fear of crime and violence in gated communities / Setha M. Low -- Race : local biology and culture in mind / Atwood D. Gaines -- Unbound subjectivities and new biomedical technologies / Margaret Lock -- Globalization, childhood, and psychological anthropology / Thomas S. Weisner and Edward D. Lowe -- Drugs and modernization / Michael Winkelman and Keith Bletzer -- Ritual practice and its discontents / Don Seeman -- Spirit possession / Erika Bourguignon -- Witchcraft and sorcery / René Devisch -- Genocide and modernity / Alexander Laban Hinton -- Corporate violence / Howard F. Stein -- Political violence / Christopher J. Colvin -- The politics of remorse / Nancy Scheper-Hughes.

The late twentieth century witnessed an acceleration of globalizing processes, resulting in many changes to the ways in which individuals experience emerging or dissolving cultural communities. This book brings together leading scholars for an overview of contemporary ethnographic work and the processes of global change.

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