Innovations in psychological anthropology / edited by Rebecca J. Lester.

Introduction / Rebecca J. Lester -- Recovering innovations: Louis Eugene King and the study of race in the United States / Kevin K. Birth -- Re-cognizing anthropological methods: Towards a decolonizing cognitive anthropology / Lawrence T. Monocello, Nicole J. Henderson, and Liqin Xia -- Beyond "Psychotics" and the "Feeble-Minded": Psychological anthropology and the disabled mind / John Marlovits and Matthew Wolf-Meyer -- On love and abolition: Building a speculative practice of transformative justice in psychological anthropology / Abby Mack, Stephanie Keeney Parks, and Dell Parks -- Listening to refusal: Exploring the political in psychological anthropology / Zehra Mehdi -- Revisiting and revisioning silence and narrative in psychological anthropology / Merav Shohet and Annemarie Samuels -- Dangerous intimacies: Resentment, risk, and PTSD recovery in "Post-Racial" America / Rebecca J. Lester -- Afterword / Rebecca J. Lester.

"This volume is a bold and long-overdue intervention into the field of psychological anthropology. It asks how scholars might both constructively destabilize old frameworks borne from the field's complex past and seed innovative new engagements in order to chart an ethical, responsible, and constructive way forward. The contributions cover such topics as white supremacy and the production of knowledge, new perspectives on the "disabled" mind, the importance of ethnographic refusal, silence in narrative, and the racialization of therapeutic methods,. This timely book seeks to reinvigorate the field and lay groundwork for a new bridge between the subdiscipline and the wider anthropological community. It is an ideal text for courses in anthropology, psychology, and the wider social sciences and humanities"-- Provided by publisher.