Overview
- Offers an emergent theory and methodology uniquely situated to capture the lived realities of people with mental illness
- Explores how the authors' form of visual practice and orientation, visual psychological anthropology, reshapes the entire research process
- Complements the six-part, award-winning film series Afflictions: Culture and Mental Illness in Indonesia
Part of the book series: Culture, Mind, and Society (CMAS)
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About this book
This book is one of the first to integrate psychological and medical anthropology with the methodologies of visual anthropology, specifically ethnographic film. It discusses and complements the work presented in Afflictions: Culture and Mental Illness in Indonesia, the first film series on psychiatric disorders in the developing world, in order to explore pertinent issues in the cross-cultural study of mental illness and advocate for the unique role film can play both in the discipline and in participants’ lives. Through ethnographically rich and self-reflexive discussions of the films, their production, and their impact, the book at once provides theoretical and practical guidance, encouragement, and caveats for students and others who may want to make such films.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Steps Towards a Visual Psychological Anthropology
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Afflictions: Culture and Mental Illness in Indonesia
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The Practice of Visual Psychological Anthropology
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Reviews
“This book is intended to complement the stories and themes explored in the films, and to shed light on the contribution of ethnographic film to psychological anthropology. … The book is not only relevant and informative on the subject of visual anthropology, but it is also very concrete: Lemelson provides many examples of his own experience and that of other researchers, which helps to make the book practical.” (Véronique Senécal-Lirette, Anthropology Bookforum, Vol. 5 (1), 2019)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Robert Lemelson is Associate Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, Founder and Director at Elemental Productions, and Founder and President of The Foundation for Psychocultural Research.
Annie Tucker is Lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, and Senior Researcher at Elemental Productions.
Annie Tucker is Lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, and Senior Researcher at Elemental Productions.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Afflictions
Book Subtitle: Steps Toward a Visual Psychological Anthropology
Authors: Robert Lemelson, Annie Tucker
Series Title: Culture, Mind, and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59984-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-59983-0Published: 11 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86752-6Published: 04 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-59984-7Published: 26 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2637-6806
Series E-ISSN: 2634-517X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 306
Number of Illustrations: 24 illustrations in colour
Topics: Psychological Methods/Evaluation, Cross Cultural Psychology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography