The Challenge of Teaching Ethnopsychology
Barry Michrina
Anthropology of Consciousness March 1, 1996 DOI: 10.1525/ac.1996.7.1.4 (opens in new tab)
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| Key points | Describes ethnopsychology as the study of native theories of emotions, illness and curing, and self and personality, and reports that the author teaches it using dramas and experiential exercises intended to expand students' cognitive, visceral, and political consciousness of indigenous psychologies. |
Abstract
Ethnopsychology is the study of native theories and understandings of emotions, of illness and curing, and of self and personality. In teaching this subject I use techniques such as dramas and experiential exercises to aid in expanding students'cognitive, visceral, and political consciousness of the world's indigenous psychologies.