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- 4. Meaning of Symbol (Obeysekere)– the communicated meaning of a symbol to a socio-cultural group. In Medusa’ s Hair, the communicated meaning of the symbol was often different from the 3 women he studies, the personal meaning of the symbol.
- 7. of Symbol (Obeysekere)– the original meaning of a symbol. Crapanzano is interested in investigating not only the genesis/origin of the symbol, but the personal meaning, and the socio-cultural meaning.
- 9. Fanon– Martinique psychiatrist and psychoanalyst educated in France known for critical theory and decolonial studies. Wrote The Wretched of the Earth, including a chapter called “Colonial War and Mental disorders” based on his accounts of treating Algerian and French patients during the Algerian war. He understood colonization to be something psychological just as much as material.
- 10. Rosaldo–Renator Roslado wrote “Grief and a HeadHunter’s Rage”, a study about headhunting among the illongot, where they headhunt in the rage of mourning after the death of a loved one. Roslando had a hard time conceptualizing this until he lost his wife, Michelle Roslado in a hiking accident. Afterwards, he came to understand grief and the rage it entails that moves the Illongot toward headhunting.
- 11. Interviewing and Observation (Hollan) - a type of ethnographic and psychological interviewing established by Robert Levy that focuses on one individual within culture, rather than a group. Interviews are longitudinal, meaning you may ask the same question multiple times within different periods of time.
- 13. “Aggrieved” (Ralph)– developing a communal frame of care based on grief. This concept was influenced by Ralph’s ethnographic work focusing on Mrs. Lana and the community care in Eastwood Chicago.
- 16. (Halpbern)–Halpbern wrote From Detached Concern to Empathy: Humanizing Medical Practice. She defines empathy as a first-person-like, experiential understanding of another person’s perspective” Halpern argues that empathy requires imagination as well as affective attunemen as an ongoing intersubjective process.
- 17. Orientation (Hallowell)– the ability to relate to objects within one’s own environment, both material and immaterial objects. For example, “I experience the world not only myself but with my dog.”
- 20. Disorders (Fanon)– Fanon elaborates on this in the The Wretched of the Earth. These are mental disorders that’s root cause is colonialism. Fanon understands colonialism to not only be material but psychological, and it affects the psyches of both the colonizer and the colonized.
- 21. (Freud)– This is written in “Mourning and Melancholia”, it is suffering after the loss of a loved object consciously with an end.
- 24. Reality (Crapanzano)– verifiable events that happened. In Tuhami, Crapanzano was unsure of what parts of Tuhami’s experience were true and what was not.
- 25. bringing something from the past into the present.
- 26. phenomenology– phenomenology focuses on consciousness, experience, and embodiment. Cultural phenomenology thus deals with how consciousness and embodiment are shaped socioculturally.
- 28. Truth (Crapanzano)– a person’s subjective experience not based on external verification. For example, Tuhami’s telling of his story was his autobiographical truth.
- 31. an account of culture based on ethnographic fieldwork for usually at least one
- 34. turning back onto oneself, when the anthropologist reflects on their own subjectivity and positionality in their research, fieldwork and ethnography.
Down
- 1. turning something inward outward. (Attributing one's own thoughts to something else)
- 2. Symbol (Obeysekre)– the meaning of a symbol unique to a person’s experience. In Medusa’ s Hair, Obeysekere analyzes the personal meaning of symbols (matted hair) through 3 different women’s accounts.
- 3. Subject” (Robbins)– a limiting view of conceptualizing oppressed people (people oppressed by colonization, capitalism, racism, gender violence, illness, etc). Robbins believes that the “suffering subject” is a narrow category for analyzing oppressed people.
- 5. Orientation (Hallowell)– experiencing the self as one distinct continuous person. There is an awareness of ones body, a sense of personal identity, a distinction between the self and non-self, and continuity within the self
- 6. bringing something from the past into the present. Traditionally, it is the opposite of transference where it is a relationship between the psychoanalyst and the patients where the psychoanalysts brings their past experiences onto the patient.
- 8. turning something that was outward inward.
- 11. Anthropology– a subsect of sociocultural anthropology that focuses on the interaction between culture and mental processes.
- 12. how individuals come to think and feel about their experiences within a specific sociocultural context. Subjectivity in psychological anthropology usually deals with how people come to understand and embody suffering and or illness.
- 14. a branch of psychology that examines how the sociocultural environment shapes thinking, emotions, behaviors, etc.
- 15. Melancholia (Eng & Han)– Eng and Han focus on racialized subjects, specifically Asian Americans and the experience of melancholia. For them, the lost object is full national belonging where they structurally feel the nation's exclusion and racism.
- 18. Self (awareness) (Hallowell)– the ability of a person to discriminate themselves as an object among a world of other objects. While different cultures have different concepts of the self, this idea of self awareness is universal among humans.
- 19. Orientation (Hallowell)– the way that people experience both space and time.
- 22. of the Good (Robbins)– Robbins maintains that analyzing differences in ethnography is valuable, yet it should not be the starting point. Instead, one should begin with what are people's efforts to live well, as they define it.
- 23. people unfamiliar to the anthropologist. Robbins asserts that historically and classically, this scholarship has started at the point of analyzing differences and alterity.
- 27. Orientation (Hallowell)– the moral dimension of experience, what is embodied and felt within what is right versus wrong.
- 28. of the “Other” (Robbins)– Anthropology’s history of focusing on the so-called
- 29. a shared understanding, meaning or perception between two or more individuals.
- 30. (Freud)– This is written in “Mourning and Melancholia”, it is suffering after the loss of a loved object unconsciously or ambiguously without an end.
- 32. Orientation (Hallowell)– what inspires or moves people to act.
- 33. Addiction Concept (Garriet & Raikhel)– the notion of “heavy habitual consumption” despite severe consequences and determined by internal “forces beyond the actor’s control”, the idea that addiction is a purely biological disease.