Afflictions: Steps Toward a Visual Psychological Anthropology

By Annie Tucker and Robert Lemelson

Book Overview

1. Introduction2. Precedents and Possibilities: Towards an Integration of Visual and Psychological Anthropology3. Culture, Mental Illness, and Outcome in Java and Bali4. The Bird Dancer: Social Suffering and the Question of Therapeutic Visual Ethnography5. Shadows and Illuminations: The Complexities of Interpreting and Framing Extraordinary Experience6. Family Victim: Encountering Deviance and Representing Intersubjectivity7. Memory of My Face: Globalization, Madness, and Identity Onscreen8. Ritual Burdens: Culturally Defined Stressors and Developmental Progressions9. Kites and Monsters: Continuity in Cultural Practices and Visual Representation10. Basic Concepts in Filming for Visual Psychological Anthropology11. Visual Person-Centered Ethnography: Adapting Core Methodologies and Articulating Principles for Visual Psychological Anthropology

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319599836
• ISBN13: 9783319599830
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.3"