Culture-Bound Syndromes in Popular Culture
Cringuta Irina Pelea, Cringuta Irina Pelea
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Culture-Bound Syndromes in Popular Culture
Cringuta Irina Pelea, Cringuta Irina Pelea
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This volume explores culture-bound syndromes, defined as a pattern of symptoms (mental, physical, and/or relational) experienced only by members of a specific cultural group and recognized as a disorder by members of those groups, and their coverage in popular culture.
Encompassing a wide range of popular culture genres and mediums – from film and TV to literature, graphic novels, and anime – the chapters offer a dynamic mix of approaches to analyze how popular culture has engaged with specific culture-bound syndromes such as hwabyung, hikikomori, taijin kyofusho, zou huo ru mo, sati, amok, Cuban hysteria, voodoo death, and others.
Spanning a global and interdisciplinary remit, this first-of-its-kind anthology will allow scholars and students of popular culture, media and film studies, comparative literature, medical humanities, cultural psychiatry, and philosophy to explore simultaneously a diversity of popular cultures and culturally rooted mental health disorders.
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- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Towards a New Research Paradigm in Popular Culture
- Part I East Asia
- Part II India and Southeast Asia
- Part III America and Native American Culture
- Part IV Africa and the Middle East
- Index