ANT 132

Psychological Anthropology

History of the relationship between anthropology and psychoanalysis. Exploration of anthropology of emotions, colonial psychology, contemporary ethno-psychiatry, studies on personhood, possession, magic, altered states, subjectivity, and definitions of the normal and the pathological in different contexts and cultures.

Units: 4.0

Hours: Lecture—3 hour(s); Extensive Writing/Discussion—1 hour(s).