CHYS 3P09 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ifalik, Deliriant, American Anthropologist
9 Oct 2018
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Research strategies: culture and context matters, research strategies. How does the dsm deal with culture: cautionary notes, culture bound syndromes-recurrent, locality specific patterns of aberrant behaviours and troubling experiences, ataque de nervios- distress seen mainly among latinos from the. Caribbean: bouf e deliriant- uncontrollable anger and distress, seen mainly in west. Diversity & culturally informed assessment: verbal communication difficulties, nonverbal communication difficulties, proxemics- personal and interpersonal space, kinesics- characteristics of bodily movement and eye contact, paralanguage- characteristics of vocal cues when talking. The construction of emotions in the west: distrust of emotions, you are being emotional (meaning irrational, expressions of emotions of obsolete, vestiges of out evolutionary heritage. Versus: e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)s as guara(cid:374)tee of authe(cid:374)ti(cid:272)it(cid:455) a(cid:374)d (cid:271)est guide to so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e"s true self, romanticism in this era emotions tend to be valued in personal and political life. Jean rousseau 1755 peoples should just listen to their natural emotions to guide us to what is right.
