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Afflictions: Steps towards a Visual Psychological Anthropology by Robert Lemelson and Annie Tucker
Anthropological Quarterly ( IF 0.853 ) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 , DOI: 10.1353/anq.2019.0050
Erminia Colucci

T carefully crafted book by Lemelson and Tucker provides theoretical and practical reflections on the Afflictions: Culture and Mental Illness in Indonesia film series (Lemelson 2010–2011), produced by the first author’s company Elemental Productions. These six longitudinal ethnographic films explore a range of neuropsychiatric (Part 1) and psychotic (Part 2) conditions in various cultural settings in Indonesia. However, the book is more ambitious than this and attempts to address important questions, in particular: What can ethnographic film offer to Psychological Anthropology and, conversely, what can the theories and methods of Psychological Anthropology offer to ethnographic filmmaking? In doing so, the authors bring together two streams that “only occasionally flowed together” (25). In this book review, I will provide a brief description of the three sections in which this book is divided highlighting what, in my opinion, are the key strengths and contributions of this book and the (very few) limitations. The book opens (Chapter 1) with defining Psychological Anthropology as “the subfield of anthropology concerned with the intersection of the psychological and the cultural” (6) and (Chapter 2) presenting some films which could be identified as early examples of psychologically-engaged anthropological films. Very early in the book the authors also describe, methodologically and theoretically, a key technique of Psychological Anthropology that was applied in the Affliction series, i.e., person-centred ethnography (PCE). Rather than providing an overview of a cultural group or community, PCE aims to “know what it feels like to live as an individual in a particular cultural setting” (11) and strives to be “experience near,” placing the participants’ emotions at the center of the story. In addition

中文翻译:

痛苦:迈向视觉心理人类学的步骤罗伯特·莱梅尔森和安妮·塔克

由 Lemelson 和 Tucker 精心编写的 T 书提供了对由第一作者的公司 Elemental Productions 制作的印度尼西亚电影系列(Lemelson 2010-2011 中的文化和精神疾病)的理论和实践反思。这六部纵向民族志电影探讨了印度尼西亚各种文化环境中的一系列神经精神病(第 1 部分)和精神病(第 2 部分)状况。然而,这本书比这更雄心勃勃,并试图解决重要的问题,特别是:民族志电影可以为心理人类学提供什么,相反,心理人类学的理论和方法可以为民族志电影制作提供什么?在这样做的过程中,作者将两条“只是偶尔汇合在一起”的溪流汇集在一起​​ (25)。在这篇书评中,我将简要描述本书的三个部分,重点介绍我认为本书的主要优势和贡献以及(很少)局限性。这本书开篇(第 1 章)将心理人类学定义为“人类学的子领域,涉及心理和文化的交叉”(6)和(第 2 章)展示了一些可以被认为是心理参与的早期例子的电影。人类学电影。在本书的早期,作者还从方法论和理论上描述了心理人类学的一项关键技术,该技术应用于痛苦系列,即以人为中心的民族志 (PCE)。而不是提供一个文化群体或社区的概述,PCE 旨在“了解在特定文化环境中作为个人生活的感觉”(11) 并努力“体验近在咫尺”,将参与者的情绪置于故事的中心。此外
更新日期:2019-01-01
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