Whereas most anthropological research is grounded in social, cultural and biological analysis of the human condition, this volume opens up a different approach:

Whereas most anthropological research is grounded in social, cultural and biological analysis of the human condition, this volume opens up a different approach:

In Genres of Listening Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas explores a unique culture of listening and communicating in Buenos Aires. She traces how psychoanalytic listening

For the Yagwoia-Angan people of Papua New Guinea, womba is a malignant power with the potential to afflict any soul with cravings for pig meat and human flesh.

Through a dual engagement with the unconscious in psychoanalysis and Islamic theological-medical reasoning, Stefania Pandolfo’s unsettling and innovative book