Psychological Anthropology
Code
711001015
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Antropologia
Credits
6
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
Introduce the students to the main theoretical and methodological perspectives which have intersected and have been debated within Psychological Anthropology
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
Psychological anthropology: an American school marked by cooperation and confrontation with psychoanalysis?
Psychoanalytic anthropology: the collaboration between psychoanalysts and anthropologists (Malinowski, Linton and Maccoby; Herdt, Juillerat
and Godelier; Roheim and Devereux)
New directions in psychological anthropology:
The socialization and apprehension of cultural meanings
Cognition and social selves
Identity processes and conflicts
Culture and psychopathology
Bibliography
Crapanzano, V. (2003), Reflections on Hope as a Category of Social and Psychological Analysis, Cultural Anthropology 18(1), 3-32
Csordas, T. (2001) Embodiment and Experience, Cambridge: Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology
Lindholm, C. (2001) Culture and Identity. The History, Theory and Practice of Psychological Anthropology, Boston: Mc Graw-Hill.
Parish, S. (2008) Subjectivity and Suffering in America Culture, NY, P. Macmillan
Suarez-Orozco, M., Spindler G. (edits) (1994) The Making of Psychological Anthropology II, Fort Worth, Filad.: Harcourt Bruce College Publishers.
Teaching method
Classes consist of a presentation of the key ideas of each module by the teacher; an interactive component with students (through questions and other interactive strategies), and a part involving debate on specific topics.
Evaluation method
Assessment consists of a written test and the carrying out small exercises for discussion in class. In the written assessment, students can opt for an assignment (literature review, or empirical study) or a test. Supervision of the assignments proposed by the students, whether individually or in small groups, takes place outside the classes.