A Companion to Psychological Anthropology : Modernity and Psychocultural Change

This Companion provides the first definitive overview of psychocultural anthropology: a subject that focuses on cultural, psychological, and social interrelations across cultures. Brings together original essays by leading scholars in the fieldOffers an in-depth exploration of the concepts and topics that have emerged through contemporary ethnographic work and the processes of global changeKey issues range from studies of consciousness and time, emotion, cognition, dreaming, and memory, to the lingering effects of racism and ethnocentrism, violence, identity and subjectivity