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Product DescriptionFocusing on the breadth of issues that affect psychotherapy with African American women, this unique volume is designed to help clinicians develop a broader understanding of what is useful and what is problematic when applying psychodynamic concepts to their clients. From an array of seasoned clinicians, chapters present innovative and creative reformulations of theory and technique that build upon and challenge existing models. Issues addressed include the psychological dilemmas confronting diverse African American women as they negotiate a society that is hostile to them on multiple levels; how ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation and other…. Click Here to Read More

Product DescriptionViolent ethno-nationalist conflicts continue to mar the history of the twentieth century; yet no satisfactory answer to the question of why humans are susceptible to indoctrination by ideologies that lead to inter-group hostility has so far been found. In this volume an international team of leading scientists from many different fields approach this complex issue from a biological perspective, treating indoctrinability as a predisposition that has its roots in humanity’s evolutionary past. Indoctrinability, Ideology, and Warfare: Evolutionary…. Click Here to Read More

Product DescriptionRecently anthropology has turned to accounts of persons-in-history/history-in-persons, focusing on how individuals and groups as agents both fashion and are fashioned by social, political, and cultural discourses and practices. In this approach, power, agency, and history are made explicit as individuals and groups work to constitute themselves in relation to others and within and against sociopolitical and historical contexts. Contributors to this volume extend this emphasis, drawing upon their ethnographic research in Nepal to examine closely how selves, identities, and experience are produced in dialogical relationships through time in a multi-ethic nation-state…. Click Here to Read More

Product DescriptionVeeder establishes essential characteristics of women’s decision-making using Irish women, chosen in part because of their country’s patriarchal culture, as her sample. The women, divided into three age groupings, offer extensive, poignant, and compelling statements that there are significant gender differences in decision-making. Focusing on choices made in the context of the family–education, marriage, childbearing–the author challenges stereotypes of women and finds their decision-making not only cognitive but more practical, flexible, efficient, and more valuing of relationships. Women’s Decision-Making: Common Themes . . . Irish…. Click Here to Read More

Product DescriptionAn intriguing dialogue on how different groups of people in our society confront different social realities. Leading scholars explore varied approaches to diversity in the research process and offer practical guidelines on conducting diversity-conscious and diversity-sensitive projects and research. Human Diversity: Perspectives on People in Context…. Click Here to Read More

Product DescriptionThe purpose of this book is to describe state-ofthe-art psychological conceptualizations, interventions, and research with Latino groups living in the United States. Each chapter in this book provides sophisticated information as well as practical suggestions. Psychological Interventions and Research With Latino…. Click Here to Read More

Product Description How have conceptions and practices of sovereignty shaped how ­Chineseness is imagined? This ethnography addresses this question through the example of Macau, a southern Chinese city that was a Portuguese colony from the 1550s until 1999. As the Portuguese administration prepared to transfer Macau to Chinese control, it mounted a campaign to convince the city’s residents, 95 percent of whom identified as Chinese, that they possessed a “unique cultural identity” that made them different from other Chinese, and that resulted from the existence of a Portuguese state on Chinese soil. This attempt sparked reflections on the meaning of Portuguese governance that…. Click Here to Read More

Product DescriptionSocial Psychology and Cultural Context is the first survey of social psychology to integrate cross-cultural issues. The book not only utilizes several variants of the construct of subjective culture but also reflects the current state of affairs in the social domain of cross-cultural psychology. Written by world-renowned specialists, the chapters in this volume offer valuable insights to students and researchers in both cross-cultural and social psychology. Social Psychology and Cultural Context…. Click Here to Read More

Product DescriptionThe recent outbreak of ethnonationalist crimes in the Middle East, Rwanda, Bosnia, Chechnya, and Northern Ireland has once again brought this particular type of violence to the fore. This timely monograph examines the social-psychological and anthropological roots of this spreading societal evil. Dusan Kecmanovic draws upon his own experiences of conflict in Bosnia to explain how the potential for ethnonationalism is realized under particular social and political circumstances. He integrates various concepts of group dynamics to reveal ethnonationalism’s existence as a perennial tendency and principle in a new historical, social, and ideological guise. The…. Click Here to Read More

Product DescriptionIn this companion volume to Parallel Worlds, Alma Gottlieb explores ideology and social practices among the Beng people of Côte d’Ivoire. Employing symbolic and postmodern perspectives, she highlights the dynamically paired notions of identity and difference, symbolized by the kapok tree planted at the center of every Beng village. “This book merits a number of readings. . . . An experiment in ethnography that future projects might well emulate.” –Clarke K. Speed, American Anthropologist ” evocative, rich ethnography. . . . Gottlieb does anthropology a real service.” –Misty L. Bastian, American Ethnologist “Richly detailed. . . . This book…. Click Here to Read More