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CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY
American Journal of Psychiatry, 1956Studies that reveal incidence rates or even the prevalence of various kinds of mental malfunctioning or healthy adaptation in a series of cultures actually estimate how much malfunction or adjustment exists or can pile up in each specific culture. As such, these studies are epidemiological.
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The Culture-Area Concept in Social Anthropology
American Journal of Sociology, 1927The culture-area concept promises new leads in social science research. This idea has been used primarily by anthropologists, but is now receiving much attention from workers in the biological and social sciences. The American school of social anthropology proceeds on the belief that there are regional differences in material culture, and also in ...
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Social Anthropology, Radical Alterity And Culture
Canberra Anthropology, 1992S'interrogeant sur la notion de « culture », l'A. critique certains des points de vue de Keesing concernant l'anthropologie sociale : la necessite de souligner les differences afin de mettre en evidence la construction culturelle dans un monde ou l'homogeneisation se developpe ; le concept anthropologique de culture a ete contamine par la pensee ...
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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology
2009Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. How to Use this Book. List of Entries. List of Contributors. Analytical Table of Contents. Contributions by author. Entries A-Z. Biographical Appendix. Glossary. Name Index. People and Places Index. Subject Index.
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Social and Cultural Anthropology for the 21st Century
2021Marzia Balzani, Niko Besnier
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Social and cultural anthropology: salience for psychiatry
2012AbstractAnthropology's chief contribution to psychiatry is to emphasize the importance of the social world in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, and to provide concepts and methods that psychiatrists can apply (the appropriate cross-disciplinary translation first being made, however).
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Social and Cultural Anthropology and the Study of Blame
Abstract This chapter focuses on the contribution that anthropology can make to the understanding of the ways in which blame is used in different societies, and the implications of this for the politics of blame. Anthropology is a study of the ways in which societies and cultures respond to and manage challenges.openaire +1 more source