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Culture-Bound Syndromes in Popular Culture: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

Editat de Cringuta Irina Pelea
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 apr 2025
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.
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ISBN-13: 9781032458816
ISBN-10: 103245881X
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Seria Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies


Notă biografică

Cringuta Irina Pelea is Lecturer in Communication Studies at Titu Maiorescu University, Romania. Her major research and teaching interests are popular culture, intercultural communication, Japanese studies, and public relations. She is the editor of the present volume, Culture-Bound Syndromes in Popular Culture, and has forthcoming chapters in the volumes Confronting Conformity: Gender Fluidity in Japanese Arts & Culture and Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice. She can be followed on Instagram @prof.irina.pelea.

Cuprins

Introduction: Towards a New Research Paradigm in Popular Culture
Part I: East Asia
Chapter 1: When Repressed Anger Fights Back: Hwabyung in Korean Popular Culture
Chapter 2: Human Encaged: Hikikomori and Taijin Kyofusho in Japanese Popular Culture
Chapter 3: A Qigong-Induced Mental Disorder: Zou Huo Ru Mo in Chinese Popular Culture
Part II: India and Southeast Asia
Chapter 4: Cultural Syndromes in India: Understanding Widow Burning in Sati and Jauhar through Indian Literature
Chapter 5: The Yakshi Syndrome in Indian Popular Culture: Representation of Possessed Female Bodies in Indian Cinema
Chapter 6: Seeking the Maternal Uncle: A Study of the Culture-Bound Syndrome Known as Nihu in the Karbis
Chapter 7: Old but Still Going Strong: Don Khong in Thai Popular Culture
Chapter 8: Rethinking Amok: Indigenous Identity Affirmation in Malay Legends of Southeast Asia
Part III: America and Native American culture
Chapter 9: The Next Frame Could Be My Redemption: Signature Wounds and Tunnel-Vision Haunt War-Themed Cultural Artifacts
Chapter 10: Wendigo Psychosis: From Colonial Fabrication to Popular Culture Appropriations and Indigenous Reclamations
Chapter 11: Cuban Hysteria. Tracing the Invention of a Culture-Bound Syndrome. (17981830)
Chapter 12: Digital Culture-Bound Syndromes: A Sociocultural Perspective on Human-Technology Interaction, Mental Health, and Communication
Part IV: Africa and the Middle East
Chapter 13: To Kill or to Resurrect: Screening the Agency of Voodoo Priests, Sorcerers and Men of God in Cameroonian and Nigerian Films
Chapter 14: Belief in the Existence of the Jinn as a Cultural Syndrome: The Case of Sadeq Hedayat's Fiction
Chapter 15: Ghostly Environments: Faru Rab and the Transnational in Atlantics (2019)