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This book explores major shifts and reorientations in the recent history of American Anthropology. It engages three fundamental intellectual-political challenges that American anthropology is destined to confront: becoming more self-reflexive, achieving theoretical and methodolo…
There is growing interest in 'therapeutic narratives', stories that help to explain why people need to create stories, and what in the particular structure of clinical practice gives therapists and patients practical reasons for constructing stories with a specific narrative for…
There is a growing interest in 'therapeutic narratives' and the relation between narrative and healing. Cheryl Mattingly's ethnography of the practice of occupational therapy in a North American hospital investigates the complex interconnections between narrative and experience …
Viewing the world of disability as a socially constructed experience, this book presents case studies of clinical interactions between occupational therapists and patients, many of them severely injured and disabled.
"Robin Fox, one of the preeminent anthropologists of our time, takes us on an exuberant personal, intellectual and cultural journey through the 1930s to the 1970s. Fox's method is to depend entirely on memory to select the people, events, and ideas that have driven him towards w…
"This book explores the transformations of world view and approach as they have been experienced by anthropological colleagues, a number of whom began their work very much in the earlier tradition. They cover experiences of field research in Africa, Papua New Guinea, South Ameri…
"This book explores the transformations of world view and approach as they have been experienced by anthropological colleagues, a number of whom began their work very much in the earlier tradition. They cover experiences of field research in Africa, Papua New Guinea, South Ameri…
"Fieldwork Under Fire is a path-breaking collection of essays that explores the dynamics of sociological violence from within. Written by anthropologists who have been in the midst of violent conflict, these essays combine theoretical, ethnographic, and methodological points of …
This title presents a collection of essays written by anthropologists who have experienced the unpredictability and trauma of political violence firsthand. These essays combine theoretical, ethnographic, and methodological points of view to illuminate the processes and solutions…