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<i>Synopsis of Contents</i> x <p><i>Notes on Contributors</i> xvii</p> <p><i>Acknowledgments</i> xxv</p> <p>Introduction 1</p> <p><b>Part I Sensing, Feeling, and Knowing 15</b></p> <p>1 Time and Consciousness 17<br /> <i>Kevin Birth</i></p> <p>2 An Anthropology of Emotion 30<br /> <i>Charles Lindholm</i></p> <p>3 "Effort After Meaning" in Everyday Life 48<br /> <i>Linda C. Garro</i></p> <p>4 Culture and Learning 72<br /> <i>Patricia M. Greenfield</i></p> <p>5 Dreaming in a Global World 90<br /> <i>Douglas Hollan</i></p> <p>6 Memory and Modernity 103<br /> <i>Jennifer Cole</i></p> <p><b>Part II Language and Communication 121</b></p> <p>7 Narrative Transformations 123<br /> <i>James M. Wilce, Jr.</i></p> <p>8 Practical Logic and Autism 140<br /> <i>Elinor Ochs and Olga Solomon</i></p> <p>9 Disability: Global Languages and Local Lives 168<br /> <i>Susan Reynolds Whyte</i></p> <p><b>Part III Ambivalence, Alienation, and Belonging 183</b></p> <p>10 Identity 185<br /> <i>Daniel T. Linger</i></p> <p>11 Self and Other in an "Amodern" World 201<br /> <i>A. David Napier</i></p> <p>12 Immigrant Identities and Emotion 225<br /> <i>Katherine Pratt Ewing</i></p> <p>13 Emotive Institutions 241<br /> <i>Geoffrey M. White</i></p> <p>14 Urban Fear of Crime and Violence in Gated Communities 255<br /> <i>Setha M. Low</i></p> <p>15 Race: Local Biology and Culture in Mind 274<br /> <i>Atwood D. Gaines</i></p> <p>16 Unbound Subjectivities and New Biomedical Technologies 298<br /> <i>Margaret Lock</i></p> <p>17 Globalization, Childhood, and Psychological Anthropology 315<br /> <i>Thomas S. Weisner and Edward D. Lowe</i></p> <p>18 Drugs and Modernization 337<br /> <i>Michael Winkelman and Keith Bletzer</i></p> <p>19 Ritual Practice and Its Discontents 358<br /> <i>Don Seeman</i></p> <p>20 Spirit Possession 374<br /> <i>Erika Bourguignon</i></p> <p>21 Witchcraft and Sorcery 389<br /> <i>René Devisch</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Aggression, Dominance, and Violence 417</b></p> <p>22 Genocide and Modernity 419<br /> <i>Alexander Laban Hinton</i></p> <p>23 Corporate Violence 436<br /> <i>Howard F. Stein</i></p> <p>24 Political Violence 453<br /> <i>Christopher J. Colvin</i></p> <p>25 The Politics of Remorse 469<br /> <i>Nancy Scheper-Hughes</i></p> <p>Afterword 495<br /> <i>Catherine Lutz</i></p> <p><i>Index</i> 499</p>

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<b>Conerly Casey</b> is Assistant Professor in the anthropology and psychology programs at the American University of Kuwait. Based on research with Muslim Hausa youths in northern Nigeria, she has published several articles and book chapters about the politics of identity and citizenship, media and mediated emotion, and violence, including 'Suffering and the Identification of Enemies in Northern Nigeria' in <i>PoLAR</i> (1998) and 'Mediated Hostility: Media, "Affective Citizenships" and Genocide in Northern Nigeria' in <i>Genocide, Truth and Representation: Anthropological Approaches</i> (2007), co-edited by Alexander Laban Hinton and Kevin O'Neill. <p><b>Robert B. Edgerton</b> is a University Scholar and Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a past president of the Society for Psychological Anthropology and has published a number of books in the field, including <i>Rules, Exceptions, and Social Order</i> (1985), <i>Sick Societies</i> (1992), and <i>Warrior Women</i> (2000).</p>

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