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.
| ISBN: | 9781032458816 |
| Publication date: | 14th April 2025 |
| Author: | Cringuta Irina Pelea |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies |
| Genres: |
Popular culture Media studies Social and cultural anthropology Popular music Literary studies: general Communication studies History of art Films, cinema Social, group or collective psychology Human biology Anthropology The arts: general topics |
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.
Culture-Bound Syndromes in Popular Culture features in the following genres: Popular culture, Media studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Social, group or collective psychology, Human biology, Anthropology, History of art, Literary studies: general, The arts: general topics, History
Culture-Bound Syndromes in Popular Culture is available in Paperback
Culture-Bound Syndromes in Popular Culture was written by Cringuta Irina Pelea and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Culture-Bound Syndromes in Popular Culture has 320 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies series
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