Afflictions Steps Toward a Visual Psychological Anthropology /

• Main Authors: Lemelson, Robert (Author), Tucker, Annie (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Culture, Mind, and Society
• Subjects: Psychology.; Ethnology.; Ethnography.; Psychology > Methodology.; Psychological measurement.; Cross-cultural psychology.; Psychological Methods/Evaluation.; Cross Cultural Psychology.; Cultural Anthropology.

This book is one of the first to integrate psychological and medical anthropology with the methodologies of visual anthropology, specifically ethnographic film. It discusses and complements the work presented in Afflictions: Culture and Mental Illness in Indonesia, the first film series on psychiatr...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Precedents and Possibilities: Towards an Integration of Visual and Psychological Anthropology
• 3. Culture, Mental Illness, and Outcome in Java and Bali
• 4. The Bird Dancer: Social Suffering and the Question of Therapeutic Visual Ethnography
• 5. Shadows and Illuminations: The Complexities of Interpreting and Framing Extraordinary Experience
• 6. Family Victim: Encountering Deviance and Representing Intersubjectivity
• 7. Memory of My Face: Globalization, Madness, and Identity Onscreen
• 8. Ritual Burdens: Culturally Defined Stressors and Developmental Progressions
• 9. Kites and Monsters: Continuity in Cultural Practices and Visual Representation
• 10. Basic Concepts in Filming for Visual Psychological Anthropology
• 11. Visual Person-Centered Ethnography: Adapting Core Methodologies and Articulating Principles for Visual Psychological Anthropology.