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Toward an Anthropological Theory of Mind: Introduction
In October 2011, a small, international gathering of twenty-seven anthropologists and psychologists took place at the Stanford Humanities Center, organized by Stanford anthropology professor Tanya Luhrmann and Culture and Mind postdoctoral fellows Julia Cassaniti, and Jocelyn Marrow.
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Toward an Anthropological Theory of Mind: Selves
The session on “selves” in many ways revisited some classic questions in psychological anthropology: “To what extent are selves culturally constituted? If selves are only partially constituted by culture, what other factors play a part in their makeup?
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Strange or Just Plain Weird? Cultural Variation in Mental Illness
There’s an old saying that psychology has two model organisms:…