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Whereas most anthropological research is grounded in social, cultural and biological analysis of the human condition, this volume opens up a different approach: its concerns are the psychic depths of human cultural life-worlds as explored through psycho-analytic practice and/or the psychoanalytically framed ethnographic project. In fact, some contributors here argue that the anthropological interpretation of human existence is not sustainable without psychoanalysis; others take a less extreme radical stance but still maintain that the unconscious matrix of the human psyche and of the inters
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Classification, as an object of recent anthropological scrutiny came to prominence during the 1960s, exemplified in the British (constructionist) tradition by the writings of Mary Douglas, and in the American ethno-semantics (cognitive) tradition by the likes of Harold Conklin and Brent Berlin. At the time, these approaches seemed by turns to contradict each other, or even to exist in parallel universes. However, over the last 30 years we have witnessed both a renewed interest in classification studies as well as a cross-fertilization of these once antagonistic approaches. These essay
Ethnology --- Ethnopsychology --- Human behavior
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No one reacts or responds to a drug in exactly the same way, just as no two persons are exactly alike. Individual and ethnic differences in drug response have been consistently found in clinical practice. This book covers all the important factors that explain how and why drug treatments used in psychiatry affect individuals and ethnic groups differently. It will increase understanding of how biological differences interact with social, cultural and environmental factors to bring about overall effects of medications, particularly in individuals from various ethnicities. This book uniquely brings these varied aspects together to consider a holistic approach to drug therapy across diverse biological make-up and cultures. This information has direct practical use in the clinical setting.
Ethnopharmacology. --- Psychopharmacology. --- Ethnopsychology.
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In many parts of post-socialist Europe the tumultuous political and economic developments have generated strong emotions, ranging from hope and euphoria to disappointment, envy, disillusionment, sorrow, loneliness, and hatred. Yet these aspects have been largely neglected in analyses of the profound transformations that have taken place in Central and Eastern Europe since 1990. Based on a wide variety of ethnographic case studies focusing on Russian, Siberian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Croatian, Czech, and Polish communities, this volume proves the significance of emotions to post-soc
Post-communism --- Ethnopsychology --- Emotions. --- Psychological aspects.
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Ethnopsychology. --- Personality and culture. --- Cognition and culture.
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Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- ethnopsychology --- symbolism [artistic concept] --- Nayarit
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Childbirth --- Birth customs --- Ethnopsychology --- Accouchement --- Naissance --- Ethnopsychologie --- Psychological aspects --- Aspect psychologique --- Rites et coutumes
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cultuurfilosofie --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- cultuurrelativisme --- 130.2 --- Cultural relativism --- Relativism, Cultural --- Ethnology --- Ethnopsychology --- Relativity
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A lively challenge to postmodern opinion that reveals satisfying and reliable certainties.
Cultural relativism. --- Universals (Philosophy) --- Relativism, Cultural --- Ethnology --- Ethnopsychology --- Relativity --- Universals (Logic) --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Logic --- Philosophy --- Scholasticism --- Whole and parts (Philosophy) --- Universals (Philosophy).
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