Since the body mediates all reflection and action upon the world, its centrality to the
anthropological endeavor seems assured, but a perusal of the canon of social and cultural …

Spirit possession commonly refers to the hold exerted over a human being by external
forces or entities more powerful than she. These forces may be ancestors or divinities …

Conceptions of the body are central not only to substantive work in medical anthropology,
but also to the philosophical underpinnings of the entire discipline of anthropology, where …

A History of Modern Yoga traces the roots of Modern Yoga back to the spread of western
esoteric ideas in 18th century Bengal's intellectual circles. In due course Raja Yoga …

The Social Science Encyclopedia, first published in 1985 to acclaim from social scientists,
librarians and students, was thoroughly revised in 1996, when reviewers began to describe …

On the East African island of Mayotte, Islam co-exists with two other systems of
understanding and interpreting the world around its inhabitants: cosmology and spirit …

Culture influences the experience and expression of distress from its inception. While
Western psychiatry has identified several universal patterns of distress, there are significant …

Synthesizing anthropological and neurophenomenological theories of consciousness,"
Brain, Symbol, and Experience" describes the relationships of brain, consciousness, and …

This book is a" must read" for all students of health psychology, and will be of considerable
interest and value to others interested in the field. The discipline has not involved itself with …

Global environmental change and recent worldwide infectious-disease outbreaks make the
ecological perspective of medical anthropology more important a field of study than ever. In …