Psychological Anthropology

Biocultural Dialogues: Biology and Culture in Psychological Anthropology

Psychological anthropology has a long history of integrative, crossdisciplinary research within the social sciences. This holistic tradition has substantially contributed to understanding the relationships between individuals and their cultural environment and to developing more sophisticated models of human variation within and between cultures. Whereas these contributions have generally arise...

Review of Psychological Anthropology: A Reader on Self in Culture

Keeping Biological Anthropology in Anthropology, and Anthropology in Biology

Considerable tension among the subfields has existed within the discipline of anthropology. As a result, some anthropology departments have splintered, and the hallmark "holistic approach" of anthropology has been considered more myth than reality. However, as promoted by the American Anthropological Association and the American Anthropologist for over one hundred years, enhancing the holistic ...

Cyber anthropology or anthropology in cyberspace.

As a variety of anthropology, cyber anthropology is considered to be the fastest growing sub branch in the science. It is based on synergic effects of multimedia systems and hypermedia, using their comparative advantages. One of the least researched fields of cyber anthropology is the relationship of individuals and social groups with a multimedia document in terms of their perception of such s...

Is Empathy Gendered and If So, Why? An Approach From Feminist Psychological Anthropology

Difference feminists have argued that women have special virtues. One such virtue would seem to be empathy, which has three main components: imaginative projection, awareness of the other’s emotions, and concern. Empathy is closely related to identification. Psychological research and the author’s own study of women’s and men’s talk about poverty and welfare use in the United States demonstrate...