Refracting Affects: Affect, Psychotherapy, and Spirit Dis-Possession.
The notion of affect has generated much confusion in anthropology given its focus on that which seems to escape our language. The evanescent features of affects have irritated many anthropologists who consider affect theory as an empirically weak or esoteric hermeneutics. In this article, I respond...
| Publicado en: | Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 290 - 315 |
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Springer Nature
Jun2019
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