Introduction
Rebecca J. Lester
1. Recovering Innovations: Louis Eugene King and the Study of Race in the United States
Kevin K. Birth
2. Re-Cognizing Anthropological Methods: Towards a Decolonizing Cognitive Anthropology
Lawrence T. Monocello, Nicole J. Henderson, and Liqin Xia
3. Beyond “Psychotics” and the “Feeble-Minded”: Psychological Anthropology and the Disabled Mind
John Marlovits and Matthew Wolf-Meyer
4. On Love and Abolition: Building a Speculative Practice of Transformative Justice in Psychological Anthropology
Abby Mack, Stephanie Keeney Parks, and Dell Parks
5. Listening to Refusal: Exploring the Political in Psychological Anthropology
Zehra Mehdi
6. Revisiting and Revisioning Silence and Narrative in Psychological Anthropology
Merav Shohet and Annemarie Samuels
7. Dangerous Intimacies: Resentment, Risk, and PTSD Recovery in “Post-Racial” America
Rebecca J. Lester
Biography
Rebecca J. Lester, Ph.D., LCSW is Professor of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. Her research interests include mental health, gender, sexuality, and religion, with a particular interest in how people experience and navigate existential challenges. She is also a practicing psychotherapist specializing in eating disorders, trauma, personality disorders, mood disorders, and gender/sexuality issues. Her most recent book, Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America (2019) was awarded a Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing.
