The ultimate theoretical and even ethnographic goals of anthropology depend on a mature conception of mental and embodied processes and a fully realized theory of knowledge and enculturation of experience. Anthropology has been in dialogue with allied disciplines, including psychology, philosophy, and linguistics, and many of the greatest anthropologists have made psychological questions part of, if not the key to, their work. Psychological Anthropology for the 21st Century provides a detailed survey of the intimate and enduring relationship between anthropology and psychology. Charting the developments, celebrating the accomplishments, and critiquing the inadequacies of the subdiscipline, Eller aims to communicate the exciting and important achievements in the study of cultural influences and variations in thought, emotion, and experience. Combining history and theory with robust ethnography, Eller clearly lays out the central role that psychological anthropology has played and continues to play in the discipline and should be essential reading for all students new to the study of psychological anthropology Table of Contents Introduction Part I: The Development of Psychological Anthropology 1. Psychology in the Formation of Anthropology 2. The Early Culture-and-Personality School 3. The Late Culture-and-Personality School 4. The Cognitive Turn in Anthropology: Ethnoscience and Structuralism 5. Mind in Symbols, Body, and Practice: Psychological Anthropology since the 1970s Part II: Contemporary Issues in Psychological Anthropology 6. Self and Personhood 7. Emotions 8. Dreaming and Altered States of Consciousness 9. Mental Illness 10. Cognition, Schemas, and Neuroanthropology Bibliography About the Author Jack David Eller is Associate Professor (Emeritus) of Anthropology at the Community College of Denver, USA. An experienced teacher and author, he is the author of the major introductory textbook Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives (third edition, 2016). His other titles for Routledge include Introducing Anthropology of Religion (second edition, 2014), Cultural Anthropology: 101 (2015), Culture and Diversity in the United States (2015), and Social Science and Historical Perspectives (2016). |